Index 225
actions, 16–17, 44–47, 104–105;
historical examples in international
systems, 44; and interdependence
principle, 42–43; and international
relations theory of war, 45–47, 54,
55, 57, 62t, 64t; in the international
system, 43; and polar powers, 54,
55; and preservation of the system,
42–43; and stability, 44, 102, 104–105;
and territorial outcomes in bipolar
systems, 65t, 128; and territorial
outcomes in multipolar systems,
65 t, 123–124, 156; and territorial
outcomes in unipolar systems, 65t,
130–131; and uncertainty principle,
42–43, 45
Huntington, Samuel, 69, 156
Hussein, Saddam, 6, 157
Imperialism, 20, 40, 94
Interdependence principle, 42–43
International relations theory of war:
assumptions of, 26; comparison
with other key realist theories, 59,
60–62t, 63; definition of, 1; durability
of international systems, 15–16;
empiric principles, 71–72; and great
power, 49–53; hypothesis of, 27;
innovations of, 9–10; international
systems durability, 15–17;
international systems stability, 15,
17–19; key questions of, 7–8; and
polar power, 49–53; polarity model,
47–57; and possible polarity models,
53–54; purpose of, 13; stability of
international systems, 17–19, 27–29;
and the state, 48–49; summary of,
57–63, 64–65t; systemic status of,
57–59; territorial outcomes, 30–35;
transhistorical principles, 36–47
Interstate wars, 14
Intrastate wars, 14
Intrasystemic international outcomes,
2, 5–7, 10, 19–23, 30–35, 56, 57, 151;
definition of, 13; polar powers,
20–21; systemic factors and
expansion of influence of polar
powers at the end of wars, 21–23.
See also Territorial expansion
outcomes
Iran, 2, 103, 133, 157
Iraq. See Gulf War; United States
invasion of Iraq
Italian Turkey War, 76, 77t, 112t
Italian Unification War, 75, 76t, 110tKeohane, Robert, 38
Korean War, 32, 56; and homeostasis
principle, 44; and stability of bipolar
system, 79, 80t; and territorial
outcomes, 8, 121t, 128–129, 149t
Kugler, Jacek, 39Land power, 50–53
League of Nations, 23, 92, 93, 95–96
Levy, Jack, 17
Liberalism, 1, 91
Libya, 6, 112t, 157, 159Mackinder, Halford, 51–52
MacNaughten, William Hay, 134, 136
Mahan, Alfred, 50
Major wars: absence of, 17, 100–101,
156; and anarchy principle, 124;
and bipolar systems, 30, 32, 35t,
127, 152; causes of wars by periods,
106 t; causes of wars by polarity
models, 107t, 153t; constraints
dictating the territorial results of
wars, 35t; definition of, 14–15, 30;
and homeostasis principle, 34,
124; identical to central wars in
bipolar systems, 14, 30, 32, 35t; and
multipolar systems, 65t, 81–88,
97, 99, 102, 152, 154; and stability,
17, 81–105, 152; and territorial
outcomes, 30, 35t, 65t, 154; territorial
outcomes in bipolar systems, 32,
35 t, 127–128, 154, 156; territorial
outcomes in multipolar systems,
33, 34, 35t, 65t, 109, 123–126, 154;
territorial outcomes in unipolar
systems, 31, 35t, 156
Manchurian War, 77, 77t, 115t