http://www.psypost.org/2013/08/is-war-really-disappearing-a-new-analysis-suggests-not-19918SMALLER IS BETTER (HOPPE IS RIGHT)
“Conflict does appear to be less common than it had been in the past, he said. But that’s due more to an inability to fight than to an unwillingness to do so.
“As empires fragment, the world has split up into countries that are smaller, weaker and farther apart, so they are less able to fight each other,” Braumoeller said.
“Once you control for their ability to fight each other, the proclivity to go to war hasn’t really changed over the last two centuries.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-09-09 01:35:00 UTC