Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq.  Behind the War on Terror:  Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq.  Gabriola Island, Canada, New Society Publishers, 2003.  344 p.
Discusses the causes of the Iraqi War 2003.
Book call no.:  956.70443 A286b

Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War, edited by Philip E. Tetlock and others.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1989.  401 p.
Volume 1 - Chapter 4:  The Causes of War:  A Review of Theories and Evidence, by Jack S. Levy.
Book call no.:  355.027 B419 v. 1

Bell, P. M. H.  The Origins of the Second World War in Europe.  3rd ed.  Harlow, England, Longman, 2007.  398 p.
"Approaches the subject from three different angles:  describing the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have arisen from them, analyzing the ideological, economic and strategic forces at work in Europe during the 1930s, and tracing the course of events from peace in 1932, via the initial outbreak of hostilities in 1939, through to the climactic German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 which marked the descent into general conflict." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  940.53112  B434o  2007

Blainey, Geoffrey.  The Causes of War.  3rd ed.  New York, Free Press, 1988.  325 p.
Book call no.:  355 B634c 1988

Bollerup, Soren R. and Christensen, Christian D.  Nationalism in Eastern Europe:  Causes and Consequences of the National Revivals and Conflicts in Late Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe.  New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997.  308 p.
Book call no.:  320.540947 B691n

Brown, Seyom.  The Causes and Prevention of War.  2nd ed.  New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994.  260 p.
Book call no.:  303.66 B879c 1994

Cashman, Greg and Robinson, Leonard C.  An Introduction to the Causes of War:  Patterns of Interstate Conflict from World War I to Iraq.  Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.  423 p.
"Explains the causes of war through a sustained combination of theoretical insights and detailed case studies."  Examples include World War I, World War II in the Pacific, the Six-Day War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Iraq War. - Book jacket
Book call no.:  355.027  C338i

Cashman, Greg.  What Causes War?  An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict.  New York, Lexington Books, 1993.  360 p.
Book call no.:  327.16 C338w

Conflict after the Cold War:  Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, edited by Richard K. Betts.  3rd ed.  New York, Pearson Longman, 2008.  654 p.
"The carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader introduce students to the core debates about the causes and the future of war and peace.  Through the precision of its approach and attention to new issues, this reader challenges conventional wisdom and encourages more critical examination of the political, economic, social, and military factors that underlie political violence. " - Summary
Book call no.:  909.82 C7481 2008

Copeland, Dale C.  The Origins of Major War.   Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2000.  322 p.
"Brings attention to why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts.  Copeland presents detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and the cold war." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  940.311 C782o

Couloumbis, Theodore A.  Introduction to International Relations:  Power and Justice.  3rd ed.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1986.  426 p.
War and Its Causes, pp 191-210.
Book call no.:  327 C855i 1986

Crockatt, Richard.  America Embattled:  September 11, Anti-Americanism, and the Global Order.  New York, Routledge, 2003.  205 p.
"Seeks to understand the terrible attacks of September 11 within a broader historical, political and ideological context.  Rather than drawing on simple 'clash of civilizations' oppositions, the author argues that it is important to have an awareness of the complex historical processes that influence." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  940.53112 R144s

Dunnigan, James F. and Martel, William.  How to Stop a War:  The Lessons of Two Hundred Years of War and Peace.  New York, Doubleday, 1987.  298 p.
The Four Causes of War, pp 26-38.
Book call no.:  303.66 D924h

Fierke, K. M.  Diplomatic Interventions:  Conflict and Change in a Globalizing World.  New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  221 p.
Chapter 5:  Military Interventions.
Book call no.:  341.584 F465d

The Gaia Peace Atlas, edited by Frank Barnaby.  New York, Doubleday, 1988.  271 p.
The Roots of Conflict, pp 36-57.
Book call no.:  327.172 G137

Global Security Concerns:  Anticipating the Twenty-First Century, edited by Karl P. Magyar and Bradley S. Davis.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air University Press, 1996.  327 p.
History, Culture, and Change:  Foundations of Conflicts and Wars, by Karl P. Magyar, pp 3-27.
Anticipating the Twenty-First Century:  Economic Sources of Conflicts, by Maris McCrabb, pp 123-142.
The Third World's Nonviable States:  A Major Source of Conflict in the Twenty-First Century, by Gary A. Storie, pp 143-162.
Book call no.:  355.027 G562

Glossop, Ronald J.  Confronting War:  An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem.  3rd ed.  Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 1994.  435 p.
Causes of War, pp 47-106.
Book call no.:  303.6 G563c 1994

Hinde, Robert A. and Rotblat, Joseph.  War No More:   Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age.  Sterling, VA, Pluto Press, 2003.  228 p.
Explores "what factors contribute to the outbreak of war, why people are willing to go to war, and what can be done to prevent war." - Summary
Book call no.:  355.02  H662w

How Did This Happen?  Terrorism and the New War, edited by James F. Hoge and Gideon Rose.  New York, PublicAffairs, 2001.  324 p.
"How did this happen?  This book seeks to answer this question in all its critical aspects--the motives and actions of the terrorists, the status of the U.S. military, the context of the Middle East, bioterrorism, airport security, diplomatic pressures--and to provide readers with perspective, information, and sound interpretation." - Summary
Book call no.:  363.320973 H847

Howard, Michael Eliot.  The Causes of War and other Essays.  Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1983.  248 p.
Book call no.:  355.02 H851ca

Huisken, Ronald.  The Road to War on Iraq.  Canberra, Australia, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2003.  109 p.  (Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defense, no.148)
"Seeks to describe and explain what appears to have been a massive failure of international diplomacy." - Introduction
Book call no.:  956.70443 H899r

International War:  An Anthology, edited by Melvin Small and J. David Singer.  Chicago, Dorsey Press, 1989.  419 p.
The Causes of War, pp 159-299.
Book call no.:  355.02 I61

Iraq:  Threat and Response, edited by Gerhard Beestermoller and David Little.  New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 2003.  151 p.
Argues against war with Iraq.
Book call no.:  327.730567 I65

James, Patrick.  Crisis and War.  Kingston, Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988.  192 p.
International War and Its Causes, pp 3-27.
Book call no.:  355.027 J28c

Johnson, Dominic D. P.  Overconfidence and War:  The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions.  Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2004.  280 p.
"Opponents rarely go to war without thinking they can win - and clearly, one side must be wrong.  This conundrum lies at the heart of the so-called War Puzzle:  rational states should agree on their differences in power and thus not fight.  But as Dominic Johnson argues in Overconfidence and War, states are no more rational than people, who are susceptible to exaggerated ideas of their own virtue, of their ability to control events, and of the future." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  355.027 J66o

Kagan, John.  On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace.  New York, Doubleday, 1995.  606 p.
"Details five case studies of efforts to prevent war."  These include classical examples:  "Athenian Pericles' attempts to calm the Spartans in the fifth century BC and prevent what became the Peloponnesian War; and how the treaty after the First Punic War (218-201 BC) led to the Second Punic War, and the Treaty of Versailles played the same role in regard to the First and Second World Wars.  His only example of success is the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis." - Summary
Book call no.:  904.7 K11o

Lieber, Keir A.  War and the Engineers:  The Primacy of Politics over Technology.  Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2005.  226 p.  (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
"Examines the relationships among politics, technology, and the causes of war." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  355.02  L716w

Magstadt, Thomas M. and Schotten, Peter M.  Understanding Politics:  Ideas, Institutions and Issues.  New York, St. Martin's Press, 1984.  556 p.
Immediate versus Ultimate Causes of War, p 440.
Human Nature as the Cause, pp 440-444.
Society as the Cause, pp 444-449.
Nature as the Cause, pp 449-452.
A Balanced View of War's Causes, pp 453-458.
Book call no.:  320 M212u

Martin, David.  Does Christianity Cause War?  New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.  226 p.
"This book is made up of eight lectures given under the auspices of the Sarum Lectureship in the University of Oxford during Hilary term, January to March 1995." - Preface
Book call no.:  261.873 M379d

Morrison, Wilbur H.  Twentieth Century American Wars:  Their Causes and Their Effects on American Life.  New York, Hippocrene Books, 1993.  456 p.
Book call no.:  973.9 M883t

Nelson, Keith L. and Olin, Spencer C., Jr.  Why War?  Ideology, Theory, and History.  Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979.  201 p.
Includes chapters on conservative, liberal, and radical ideology and theory about the causes of war.
Book call no.:  909.82 N427w

Otterbein, Keith F.  How War Began.  College Station, TX, Texas A&M University Press, 2004.  292 p.  (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series, no.10)
"Keith F. Otterbein draws on primate behavior research, archaeological research, data gathered from the Human Relations area files, and a career spent in research and reflection on war to argue for two separate origins." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  303.66 O89h

Pelletiere, Stephen C.  America's Oil Wars.  Westport, CT, Praeger, 2004.  192 p.
"Argues that, in going to war twice against Iraq and once against Afghanistan the United States was seeking to put a lock on its future energy supplies." - Summary
Book call no.:  956.70443 P388a

Pelletiere, Stephen C.  Iraq and the International Oil System:  Why America Went to War in the Gulf.   Westport, CT, Praeger, 2001.  239 p.
"Iraq's victory over Iran in 1988 gave the nation the capability of becoming a regional superpower with a strong say in how the Gulf's oil reserves were managed.  Because the United States could not tolerate an ultranationalist state with the potential to destabilize the world's economy, war then became inevitable." - Summary
Book call no.:  956.70442 P388i

Prados, John.  Hoodwinked:  The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War.  New York, The New Press, 2004.  375 p.
"Makes publicly available for the first time the primary source documents that show how intelligence on Iraq was consistently distorted, manipulated, and ignored by the administration." - Summary
Book call no.:  956.70443 P896h

Record, Jeffrey.  Dark Victory:  America's Second War Against Iraq.  Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2004.  203 p.
"Examines the origins, objectives, conduct, and consequences of George W. Bush's 'preemptive war' on Iraq." - Summary
Book call no.:  956.70443 R311d

The Road to War in Serbia:  Trauma and Catharsis, edited by Nebojsa Popov and Drinka Gojkovi'c.  New York, Central European University, 2000.  711 p.
English translation of Srpska Strana Rata.
Book call no.:  949.703 R628

Roberts, Paul William.  A War Against Truth:  An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq.  Vancouver, Canada, Raincoast Books, 2004.  366 p.
Book call no.:  956.70443 R646w

The Scourge of War:  New Extensions on an Old Problem, edited by Paul F. Diehl.  Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 2004.  266 p.
"A critical reexamination of the work of J. David Singer's influential Correlates of War project ." - Summary
Book call no.:  355.02 S432

Seabury, Paul.  War:  Ends and Means.  New York, Basic Books, 1989.  306 p.
The Causes of War, pp 35-60.
Book call no.:  355.02 S438w

Smith, Dan.  The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace.  4th ed.  New York, Penguin, 2003.  128 p.
"Provides a global overview of the causes and consequences of war today and the dynamics of peacemaking.  It analyzes current wars, their background, their trends and their prospects." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  355.009  K46n  2003

Sobek, David.  The Causes of War.  Malden, MA, Polity, 2009.  229 p.
"Understanding the onset of war.... requires a movement away from single theories towards one that embraces the multi-faceted causes of war." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  355.027 S677c

Speer, James P.  World Polity:  Conflict and War:  History, Causes, Consequences, Cures.  Fort Bragg, CA, Q.E.D. Press, 1986.  323 p.
Part II investigates the causes of international conflicts:  the nature of man, natures of nations and the nature of the international system.
Book call no.:  327 S742w

Stoessinger, John G.  Why Nations Go to War.  8th ed.  Boston, St. Martin's Press, 2001.  286 p.
Studies the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, India and Pakistan, the Arab States and Israel, the two Persian Gulf wars, and Sarajevo and Kosovo.
Book call no.:  909.82 S872w 2001

Suganami, Hidemi.  On the Causes of War.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.  235 p.
Book call no.:  355.027 S947o

Taylor, Scott.  Spinning on the Axis of Evil:  America's War Against Iraq.  Ottawa, Canada, Esprit de Corps Books, 2003.  231 p.
Book call no.:  956.70443 T246s

Treverton, Gregory F. and others.  Exploring Religious Conflict.  Santa Monica, CA, RAND, 2005.  64 p.
If hyperlink does not open, copy into browser.
Also available online at:  http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/2005/RAND_CF211.pdf
Book call no.:  303.6 T812e

The Use of Force:  Military Power and International Politics, edited by Robert J. Art and Waltz, Kenneth N.  7th ed.  Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.  539 p.
"The selections in this fully updated text represent the best analysis by influential thinkers on the use of force in international affairs." - Book jacket
Book call no.:  327.172  U84  2009

Van Creveld, Martin L.  The Transformation of War.  New York, Free Press, 1991.  254 p.
Chapter 5:  What War is Fought for.
Book call no.:  355.020904 V223t

Van Evera, Stephen.  Causes of War:  Power and the Roots of Conflict.  Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1999.  270 p.
"Demonstrates that ideas from the Realist paradigm can offer strong explanations for international conflict and valuable prescriptions for its control." - Summary
Book call no.:  355.027 V252c

Wilmer, Franke.  The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War:  Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia.  New York, Routledge, 2002.  220 p.
"Uses the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia as a model for investigating what causes war to occur in a particular time and place, and with such brutality." - Summary
Book call no.:  949.703 W743s

Woocher, Lawrence.  Preventing Violent Conflict:  Assessing Progress, Meeting Challenges.  Washington, United States Institute of Peace, 2009.  16 p.  (Special Report, no. 231)
"Effective conflict prevention requires knowledge about when, where, and how to design and implement appropriately tailored strategies for each case." - Page 10.
Book call no.:  302.69  W873p

Yetiv, Steve A.  Explaining Foreign Policy:  U.S. Decision-Making in the Persian Gulf War.  Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.  288 p.
Book call no.:  956.704422 Y48e

Ziegler, David W.  War, Peace, and International Politics.  6th ed.  Boston, Little, Brown, 1993.  458 p.
Causes of War, pp 151-163.
Book call no.:  327 Z66w 1993

Abonadi, Earl E. K.  Weinberger-Powell and Transformation:  Perceptions of American Power from the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Baghdad.  Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2006.  101 p.
"The most influential 'Never Again' argument has been the 1984 Weinberger Doctrine, later expanded to the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine, which sought to limit the use of American military power...Examines the course of U.S. military transformation since 1973 and analyzes the correlation between it and policy makers’ perceptions of the increased potency of force." - Abstract
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA451305
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42525  A154w

Alkubaisi, Hassan M.  Entanglement in Iraq.  Carlisle Barracks, PA, Army War College, March 2004.   20 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA424179
Doc. call no.:  M-U 39080-537 A4152e

Carlberg, Matthew A.  Epidemics Don't Cause Wars, but They Can End 'em.  Quantico, VA, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, July 2002.  49 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA403988
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41886-71 C278e

David, William E.  Environmental Scarcity as a Cause of Violent Conflict.  Fort Leavenworth, KS, Army Command and General Staff College, 1996.  67 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA314878
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42022-2 D249e

Copeland, Dale C.  Economic Interdependence and War:  A Theory of Trade Expectations.  International Security 20:5-41 Spring 1996.
Inquires on whether or not economic interdependence increases or decreases the probability of war between states.
Also available online at:  http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2889(199621)20:4<5:EIAWAT>2.0.CO;2-S

Desch, Michael C.  Planning War in Peacetime.  Joint Force Quarterly No.30:94-104 Spring 2002.
"Focuses on the impact of war planning on the effectiveness of military activities.  Evidences to support the view that war plans can cause actual wars; impact of defensive war plans on possible international conflicts; role of changing plans in the battle of France 1940." - Abstract
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10104116&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv

Dowd, Alan W.  Thirteen Years:  The Causes the Consequences of War in Iraq.  Parameters 33:46-60 Autumn 2003.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=10905106&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv

Eash, Joseph J., III.  New Instruments for War and Peace.  Joint Force Quarterly No.27:95-97 Winter 2000-2001.
Reports on studies to determine the causes of conflicts.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=5535696&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv

Einstein, Albert and Freud, Sigmund.  Why War?  International Journal of Group Tensions 1:3-25 January-March 1971.
An exchange of letters between Einstein and Freud in 1932. Originally Warum Krieg.

Howard, Michael.  The Causes of War.  Wilson Quarterly 8:90-103 Summer 1984.

Howard, Michael.  The Causes of War:  Historians and the Problem of Power.  Encounter 58:22-30 March 1982.

Kahl, Colin H.  Population Growth, Environmental Degradation, and State-Sponsored Violence:  The Case of Kenya, 1991-93.  International Security 23:80+ Fall 1998.
Also available online at:  http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2889(199823)23:2<80:PGEDAS>2.0.CO;2-Z

Merrill, A. Brent.  The Causes of War.  Military Review 62:44-52 July 1982.

Moodie, Michael.  Conflict Trends in the 21st Century.  Joint Force Quarterly No. 53:19-27 2009.
"States that the reasons for present conflicts are a combination of economic, political, psychological and social elements." - Summary
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=41028377&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv

Nesser, Petter.  Jihadism in Western Europe after the Invasion of Iraq:  Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe.  Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 29:323-342 June 2006.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=21007413&site=ehost-live&custid=airuniv

Prakash, Shri.  Causes of Conflicts in the Third World During the Post-Cold War Phase.  India Quarterly 50:23-36 January-June 1994.

Quester, George H.  Six Causes of War.  Jerusalem Journal of International Relations 6, no.1:1-23 1982.
Uses the matrices of game theory to argue that exactly opposite causes may account for different wars, and offers historical illustrations.