@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x0wmf.7, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0wmf.7}, abstract = {This book may be viewed from two different perspectives. On the one hand, it is a study of how states and statesmen behave in international crises, and it uses several kinds of theory to describe and explain that behavior. From this perspective, the purpose of the analysis is to increase our understanding of crises, and the theories are used as analytical tools. From another point of view, the purpose is to improve and integrate the theories—chiefly systems, bargaining, and decision-making theories—using crises as an empirical source for the testing, revision, augmentation, and synthesis of theory. Here the empirical}, bookauthor = {GLENN HERALD SNYDER and Paul Diesing}, booktitle = {Conflict Among Nations: Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises}, pages = {3--32}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {INTERNATIONAL CRISES AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY}, year = {1977} }