Introduction to the symposium on Dale C. Copeland, economic interdependence and war (2015)

Dale Copeland’s Economic Interdependence and War—discussed in this symposium primarily for its methodology—addresses a classic yet very timely question: Do commercial ties between countries increase or decrease the likelihood of militarized conflict? To answer this question, the book develops nuanced arguments about the conditions under which economic interdependence is more likely to become a force for peace and under what conditions it is more likely to exacerbate the risk of a militarized escalation of a conflict of interest