The ubiquity and importance of war have made analyses of its causes a central concern of scholars for over two millennia. Many of the fundamental questions about the causes of war were raised by Thucydides in the fifth century B.C., but the vast amount...

War is a large-scale conflict. War can also refer...

Walzer, Michael Forward 08-13-2004 Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation professor of social studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and is co-editor of Dissent magazine. The above is...

WAR Paper offered simplistic view of history Sunday, December 9, 2001 I was surprised at the simplistic and inaccurate headline on the front page of the Dec. 2 Crossroads section. Under "Americans have taken up arms many times to defend their...

Middle East: Violence between rival Palestinian factions has erupted across the Gaza Strip. The death toll since the fighting escalated Saturday has hit 70. But in the West, none dare call it a civil war.The intelligentsia of the developed world have too much invested in...

Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming to be the definitive version and the other claiming to be the long lost, more accessible first draft. The first translation, out on Knopf in...

“War in our time has been not merely a means of resolving inter-state disputes but also a vehicle through which the embittered, the dispossessed, the naked of the earth, the hungry masses yearning to breathe free, express their anger, jealousies,...