ABSTRACT
The willingness of governments to resort to interstate violence presumably is affected by considerations of domestic politics and calculations of international gains. The relevant model for world politics was less a two-person zero-sum game than a multiperson nonzero-sum game. Antigovernmental war encourages civil-military relations different from those stimulated by interstate conflict. As Lucien Pye has suggested, alienation often has its roots in the rationalism of modern government. In domestic violence, the essence of the conflict is the appeal to third parties. In a successful revolutionary war a party creates an army, which, in turn, brings into existence a government. One common interpretation sees the rise of the new forms of domestic violence as directly related to the decline of the old forms of intergovernmental violence. If successful, the instigating group gradually expands the locus of its authority, acquires more and more of the attributes of a government, and eventually exhausts and overwhelms the previously existing government.
