PHILIP EVERTS is Director of the Institute for International Studies, Leiden University and also serves on the Government Advisory Council on International Affairs. He is author of Public Opinion, the Churches and Foreign Policy (1983), and editor of Controversies at Home (1985), The Politics of Persuasion (with G.Walraven, 1989) and Public Opinion and the International Use of Force (with P. Isernia, 2001).

• List of Tables and Figures Preface Democracy at War Two Opposing Views A Recent Example and the Need to Ask New Questions Theory Formation and Empirical Knowledge The Software of Defence Conversion: A Paradigm Shift? Support for War: The Gulf War, 1990-1991 Innocence Lost: The Yugoslav Conflict War Without Bloodshed: The Conflict over Kosovo The Casualty Hypothesis Some Conclusions Bibliography Index