Challenging victor bias and status quo bias in realist accounts of surrender : re-reading three cases of surrender from the Peloponnesian War

From a materialist realist perspective, when a state surrenders power preponderance considerations, that is a state’s relative weakness in terms of material power, should provide the bulk of the explanation for the surrender. Yet, weak states have surrendered quickly and slowly and on occasion have...

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Main Author: Koutsoukis, Alexandros
Other Authors: Kurki, Milja ; Ruzicka, Jan
Published: Aberystwyth University 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.715164