Arms Races in International Politics : From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 106952907
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735267.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198735267
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The three co-editors of Arms Races in International Politics: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century began this collective research project because it was clear to us as experts in particular periods that no one author could adequately provide a primary sourced based analysis of arms races since the coining of the term in the 1890s. Moreover, much of the debate in political science about why arms race begin and whether they cause wars lacks empirical depth and historical context. Our project addressed that paucity of historical understanding by bringing together a team of specialists. The co-editors provided the expert contributors with a common template to shape their chapters in accordance with the overall aims of the project, specifically what explanatory models for arms races best fit the empirical evidence for each historical instance. I not only wrote the project template, but I am also the sole author for the Introduction (5,000 words), the Introduction to Part II Between the Two World Wars (3,400 words), and the author of the chapter on Naval Armaments Competition Between the Two World Wars (10,000 words). Oxford University Press allowed us to attribute sole authorship of our individual contributions as editors on the table of contents.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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