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War is costly but nonetheless it recur this is the central puzzle of war , scholars have attemped to resolve this puzzle in three types argument which is people state leaders is irrational so that they neglect the cost of war the second argument of the scholar says that the state leaders enjoy the benefits from war but do not pay the cost The third one which took most of fearons attention is the rational state leader who consider the cost and risk of war as a summary of the article titled “rationalist Explanation of war” published by James D. Fearon I will summarize it in this essay, he argues , that the traditional explanations for war not enough or do not go far enough to explain why war occurs , war is costly and risky that’s …show more content…

James D. Fearon identifies three logics to explain war despite its risk and cost, first one is war due to private information and incentives to misrepresent, state leaders know things about their army capabilities that other states leaders do not know and bargaining situation they can have incentive to misrepresent such private information in order to gain a better deal, costly signal is listed as weapons, troops, the alliance with other state and these signals can be informative, and they can increase the probability of war,”a rational state may choose to run a real risk of infefficient war in order to signal that it will fight is not given a good deal in bargaining”(397)the second on is war as a consequence of commitment problems, preferable bargains may

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