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The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War

Stephen Van Evera

International Security

Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer, 1984), pp. 58-107

Published by: The MIT Press

DOI: 10.2307/2538636

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2538636

Page Count: 50

Topics: World wars, War planning, Armies, Military alliances, Military defense, Preventive wars, Cults, Peacetime, Neutrality

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International Security
Description: International Security publishes lucid, well-documented essays on all aspects of the control and use of force, from all political viewpoints. Its articles cover contemporary policy issues, and probe historical and theoretical questions behind them.
Essays in International Security have defined the debate on American national security policy and have set the agenda for scholarship on international security affairs.

Readers of International Security discover new developments in:
- the causes and prevention of war
- ethnic conflict and peacekeeping
- post-Cold War security problems
- European, Asian, and regional security
- nuclear forces and strategy
- arms control and weapons proliferation
- post-Soviet security issues
- diplomatic and military history
Coverage: 1976-2014 (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 39, No. 3)

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ISSN: 01622889

EISSN: 15314804

Subjects: Peace & Conflict Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, International Relations

Collections: Arts & Sciences II Collection, JSTOR Archival Journal & Primary Source Collection, JSTOR Essential Collection, Security Studies Extension

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