Exploding the Powder Keg Myth: Preemptive Wars Almost Never Happen

Dan Reiter wrote this article while a postdoctoral fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars (Ithaca, NX: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 1996). He is an assistant professor in the political science department at Emory University.