Analysis: The Outbreak Of The Iraq War

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Lake explains how the bargaining theory model can help us understand the causes of wars and how they can be prevented, but the model lacks in some important areas. According to the author, the war in Iraq shows this failure because the theory does not explain why the war happened even though there were many less costly options for both sides to take. In my opinion, I believe incomplete information + incentives to misrepresent best explains the outbreak of the Iraq war. This reason explains that there is an assumption on complete information such as each country's costs and their chance of victory. The misrepresentation explanation on wars suggests that countries don't always declare the truth and they state whatever is in their best interest.

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