1 Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 367. See also Robert Jervis, “Realism, Game Theory, and Cooperation,” World Politics 40, 3 (1988): 317-49, 344
2 Trudy Govier, Forgiveness and Revenge (Routledge, 2002), 35
3 William E. Connolly, The Ethos of Pluralization (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 42
4 Benjamin Broman and Georg Vanberg, "Feuding, Arbitration, and the Emergence of an Independent Judiciary", Constitutional Political Economy 33, 2 (2022): 162-199
5 Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (Oxford University Press, 1999), 11
6 Andreas Diekmann, “Power of Reciprocity: Fairness, Reciprocity, and Stakes in Variants of the Dictator Game,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 48, 4 (2004): 487–505, 491; Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 139
7 Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Revised edition (Blackwell, 2000)
8 Caesar Julius, War Commentaries of Caesar (Mentor Book, 1960), 24-25
9 Herodotus, The Persian Wars 7.5 (Harvard University Press, 1922)
10 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (The Modern Library ,1951)
11 Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg, A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Polity, 2008)
12 Richard W. Kaeuper, War, Justice, and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 1988), 186
13 Jack Lang, Francois Ier: ou le reve italien (Perin, 1997), 220
14 Henry Bogdan, Histoire des Habsbourg: Des origins à nos jours (Perrin, 2002), 253
15 Judith Gardam, Necessity, Proportionality and the Use of Force by States, 35 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
16 Jonathan Mercer, "Emotional Beliefs", International Organization 64, 1 (2010): 1-31
17 מרכז מורשת מנחם בגין, הישיבה התשעים–וחמש של הכנסת העשירית – יום שלישי, י"ז בסיוון התשמ"ב 8 ביוני 1982 – הצעת סיעת החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון להביע אי–אמון לממשלה נוכח החלטתה לפתוח במלחמה ולפלוש ללבנון קישור
18 Jewish Virtual Library, Ehud Olmert Administration: Speech to Knesset On Violence in Lebanon and Gaza Strip – July 17, 2006 Link
19 משרד ראש הממשלה, ראש הממשלה נתניהו בהצהרה מהקריה בתל אביב קישור
20 Gadi Heimann, Why Leaders and Nations Choose War? Emotions and Decision Making (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2026)
21 Oded Löwenheim and Gadi Heimann, "Revenge in International Politics", Security Studies 17, 4 (2008): 685-724
22 Löwenheim and Heimann, Revenge