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'Existing work shows how interstate conflicts often spread beyond initial disputants, yet we still lack satisfactory answers to why states chose to join ongoing wars or abstain. This insightful book highlights how unexpected events during conflicts influence states' decisions to join or leave conflicts and provides a useful framework for understanding the dynamics of war and conflict expansion.' Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex, UK and International Peace Research Institute, Norway 'Rigoureux dans sa methodologie, l'ouvrage de Shirkey s'inscrit dans une lignee de travaux consacres A l'etude quantitative des confl its et des multiples questions s'y rattachant. MAlant de maniere equilibree quantitatif et qualitatif, l'auteur tente d'apporter une reponse A une interrogation precise qu'il refuse, en bon rationaliste, de laisser au hasard... (Rigorous in its methodology, Shirkey's book belongs to a line of works on the quantitative study of conflicts and the numerous questions linked to them. Combining quantitative and qualitative research in a balanced way, the author attempts to provide an answer to a specific question he refuses, as a good rationalist, to leave to chance...)' Etudes Internationales

'Existing work shows how interstate conflicts often spread beyond initial disputants, yet we still lack satisfactory answers to why states chose to join ongoing wars or abstain. This insightful book highlights how unexpected events during conflicts influence states' decisions to join or leave conflicts and provides a useful framework for understanding the dynamics of war and conflict expansion.' Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex, UK and International Peace Research Institute, Norway 'Rigoureux dans sa methodologie, l'ouvrage de Shirkey s'inscrit dans une lignee de travaux consacres a l'etude quantitative des confl its et des multiples questions s'y rattachant. Melant de maniere equilibree quantitatif et qualitatif, l'auteur tente d'apporter une reponse a une interrogation precise qu'il refuse, en bon rationaliste, de laisser au hasard... (Rigorous in its methodology, Shirkey's book belongs to a line of works on the quantitative study of conflicts and the numerous questions linked to them. Combining quantitative and qualitative research in a balanced way, the author attempts to provide an answer to a specific question he refuses, as a good rationalist, to leave to chance...)' Etudes Internationales

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Zachary C. Shirkey is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY, USA

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