Victory and Its Responsibilities

Comeback victory.

Democracy, War Initiation, and Victory

A study was conducted to examine the effects of nation-states’ political institutions on state relations. War-fighting and selection-effects explanation were compared to explain why democracies were more likely to win wars. An analysis of all interstate wars between 1816 and 1982 revealed that democracies that initiate wars often win them. Results also suggest that domestic political structure ...

Victory over Suffering

Miss Ikin writes from the fulness of her own experience. After years of activity during the War in which she travelled up and down the country lecturing to the Forces on personal problems, both spiritual and domestic, she now finds herself extremely limited in physical ability and unable to walk more than a short distance. Consequently she knows what she is talking about, and she gives many pra...

Victory of Community Engagement

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...

Victory over Variola ’

Over the past few years, the world has witnessed the final engagement in a long and costly war against smallpox. It now becomes increasingly clear that the war has been won, that smallpox has been totally and we hope irrevocably eliminated from among the plagues of mankind. The last stages of the war were necessarily global-that is, involving cooperation of many nations. The story is unusual in...