Cycles of Violence

Cycles of Violence provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how norms rules and procedures of decision-making cohere into a decision regime. Ranan D. Kuperman balances careful theoretical discussion with a case study to track the evolution of a decision regime over time. Focusing on the regime governing Israeli use of limited military force and using quantitative historical analysis as well as qualitative historical surveys Kuperman uses previously unpublished documents from the 1950s and 1960s to generate a new interpretation of historical events.