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STRONG CORRELATIONS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BETWEEN ARMS RACE AND THE ESCALATION OF CONFLICT INTO WAR. THE PARA BELLUM HYPOTHESIS ARGUES THAT THE ARMS RACE IS NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE DANGEROUS SITUATION OF ONE PARTY GAINING PREPONDERENCE. USING INDICES OF SUPERIORITY AND DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH THIS HYPOTHESIS CAN BE TESTED USING CORRELATES OF WAR AND LOGIT ANALYSIS. RESULTS FAVOR THE ARMS RACE INDEX.

The Atlantic Revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were prosecuted on the advancement of liberty and republicanism. Within the North American context, these broad tenets articulated the importance of a sovereign, educated and virtuous citizenry as well as the standards of an effective government constitutionally constrained in its authority. The American Revolution and the Canadian Rebellions stand as specific affirmations of these principles.Liberty and Republicanism within the North American Context: A Study of the American Revolution and the Canadian Rebellions by Michael A. Wallace is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

This paper argues that important dynamics of class relations can be revealed by the analysis of strike patterns. A theoretically informed analysis of disaggregated American strike data by issue, industrial sector, contract status and duration between 1947 and 1981 suggests that American labour militancy has displayed a somewhat contradictory pattern of 'aggressive economism and defensive control'. The role of the postwar accord between capital and labour, and the segmentation of the industrial structure into monopoly and competitive sectors, are seen as key structural determinants of this pattern. The emergence of the 'worker insurgency' of the late 1960s and the 1970s is seen as a rank-and-file response to the increasingly narrow economic focus of the capital-labour accord and an attack upon management, union leadership and, implicitly, the state.