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Conclusion to the Symposium on War Duration

Interstate wars may be increasingly rare, but no other kinds of conflict match their potential for deadliness and, as the fallout from the 2003 invasion of Iraq reminds us, their potential for producing major political change. The consequences are especially acute in the case of long wars such as the two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the Iran-Iraq conflict. This symposium draws together scholars producing cutting-edge scholarship on war duration, coming from a number of different theoretical perspectives. Despite their differences, their contributions identify insights about how future scholarship should proceed. In particular, three key questions emerge. First, to what extent are the initial causes of war also responsible for decisions to continue to fight once war is underway? Second, how should we explain short wars? Third, how can we best address challenges to reliable empirical inference, which for several reasons are particularly severe in the analysis of war duration and termination?