Bargaining Range Of War

Why have States failed to maintain peace and declared war, when it is clear that the outcome of war most times leaves all states worse off? War is defined as an event involving the organized use of military force by at least two parties that reaches a minimum threshold of security or as a conflict were more than 1000 people are killed. There are different forms of war -—interstate war and civil war— but no matter the form war comes in, it comes from national or international anarchy. War doesn’t materialize from thin air it comes from one State wanting something another State is in possession of—whether that may be resources, land, or other indivisible goods that a State has—trying to prevent another State from becoming too strong, or by trying
In bargaining each State wants the most they can get without going to war and will push for the farthest limit, this creates what is called the bargaining range. The bargaining range shows what each State stands to win or lose from going to war or effectively bargaining. The range is a set of deals that each party prefers to the alternative outcome, in some cases meaning war. Any division within the bargaining range is better than what they stand to get from going to war. War can be costly in many different ways and that has to be taken into consideration when considering bargaining. With all the different costs of war there is normally a bargain that can be preferred by both sides over
War is still a very real thing, whether it be big or small, it happens today. One reason that the bargaining range can’t always work is that sometimes States have trouble coming to an agreement on how best to split the bargaining range, and if they can’t come to a decision one or more States may find it that war could be a better outcome for them. Despite the loss of life, resources, and other economic costs war can be seen as the best situation because State’s can’t see all the costs of war.
While human life should be the biggest disincentive for going to war, as I said above resources and other economic costs are also reasons that States try to avoid wars. If State A wanted to go to war, State A might be persuaded to not go to war if State B had friendly relations with a trade partner (State C) of State A. If State A declares war on State B this could disrupt war between State A and B. The more common trade is between two States the greater the costs of disruption in trade becomes (Weede,