Politics and Warfare

Order Description Choose one only one: 1. Explain the combat contract and apply it to World War I or World War II, and Korea or Vietnam. Sources: Kindsvatter and lectures 2. Explain the bargaining and coercion explanations of World War I. Sources: Fromkin, lectures. 3. Use structural theory to explain the Cold War. Sources: lectures. 4. Use the combat contract to explain World War I combat behavior. Sources: lectures, Fromkin. 5. Explain the logic of war in terms of domestic commitment and combat compliance. Sources: lectures, Kindsvatter. 6. Use structure theory to explain the relative infrequency of major war in East Asia and its relative frequency in Europe post 1500. Sources: lectures; Andrade Cite your sources, books, and lectures where relevant. Do not use outside sources Must be 6-7 pages (cover pages don't count) with standard formatting (12point font, 1"borders, double spaced) Due online on Friday, June 15th by noon. Use turnitin.com Course Readings: Andrade, Tonio, The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History, Princeton University Press, 2017. (entire) Fromkin, David. Europe’s Last Summer: who started the Great War in 1914? Vintage Books. 2005. (entire) Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: ground combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. University Press of Kansas. 2003 (Entire) Turnitin Assignment. No plagiarism should be detective. MLA format preferred