MIT OpenCourseWare
Causes and Prevention of War
- Instructor
- Prof. Stephen Van Evera
- Term
- Spring 2018
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 solutions · 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 19 other files · 6 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 17.42 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2018, Prof. Stephen Van Evera — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Readings
Lecture Notes
19 files
- 17.42_S18 Lecture1: CourseOverview Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 10: Great Wars of European History, 1740– Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 10: The Anglo-French Seven Years' War Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 12-14: The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 / The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 19: The Causes of Intense War Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 19: Weapons of Mass Destruction and World Politics Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 20-21: The Cold War and Korea Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 22: Causes of / Solutions to the Israel-Arab Conflict Download
- 17.42_S18 Lecture 24: The Peloponnesian War Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 2 and 3: Military Power and the Causes of War Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 4-7: National Misperceptions Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 4-7: Spiral Model vs Deterrence Model Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 4-7: Three Types of Spirals Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 8 and 9: More Causes of War and Peace Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 12 - 14: The Origins of the First World War, Part I Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 12-14: The Origins of World War I, Part II Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 15-18: The Origins of the Second World War Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 15-18_Causes of the Holocaust Download
- 17.42_S18 Lectures 25-26: The Future of War and Solutions to War Download
Assignments
First Paper Assignment
Second Paper Assignment
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Stephen Van Evera, 17.42 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2018.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2018 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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