War is, no doubt, an extremely complicated social phenomenon, and many scholars have investigated the problem of the causes of war since the days of Thucydides si Text and ref.

毫无疑问，战争是一种极其复杂的社会现象。引发战争的原因是什么？

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With a detailed chronology of who did and decided whatin the days and hours leading up to the war still (oddly) unavailable, anaccurate assessment of the causes of war is still impossible.

至于在引向战争发生的那些时日里谁做了什么，谁决定了什么，我们还是无法获得一份详细的“大事记”（这有点奇怪），因此要准确分析战争起因仍然不大可能。

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It was first levied in 1902 as a way of getting the rich to help pay for the construction of the Kaiser's navy, putting it among the lesser-known causes of the first world war.

1902年最早课香槟酒税是作为一条途径，从富人处收刮钱财来帮助筹建帝国海军，也是挑起第一次世界大战鲜为人知的原因之一。

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But Nye tells VOA that while the power of U.S.ideas and its ability "to deter Soviet aggression" are essential to understanding the end of the Cold War, neither are root causes.

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And any way, Hobbes, however, was deeply distressed by the outbreak of war, and he spent a great deal of time reflecting on the causes of war and political disorder.

无论如何，霍布斯对战争的爆发,感到深深地压抑，因此他花了大量的时间反思,战争爆发的原因和政治秩序。

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For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

对亚里士多德而言,政治科学的论点与目的,是要调解形成派系的起因,避免派系形成，因那会导致革新与内战。

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Making peace is hard enough, but tackling the underlying causes of war is even harder.

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Throughout the world, one of the most prevalent causes of war, terrorism, and political instability is the ongoing weakening of the nation-state system.

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Who shall stand against the common wisdom when it is wrong about deterrence, wrong about the causes of war, wrong about the state of the world, wrong about the ambitions of ascendant nations, wrong about history, and wrong about human nature?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy