Offense-Defense Theory and Its Critics

Abstract

The author thanks Michael Desch, Charles Glaser, Stanley Hoffmann, Andrew Kydd, John Mearsheimer, Daniel Philpott, Bradley Thayer, Karen Turato, Stephen Van Evera, Celeste Wallander, participants in a seminar at the Center for International Relations, University of California at Los Angeles, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this article. An earlier version of this article was delivered at the 1995 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, 21–25 February 1995.