Why Men Fight (book)

{{Short description|Book by Bertrand Russell}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Why Men Fight: a method of abolishing the international duel

| image = Whymenfightameth00russuoft.djvu

| author = Bertrand Russell

| language = English

| country = US

| genre = War, Peace

| published = 1917

| publisher = The Century Company

}}

Why Men Fight (Why Men Fight: a method of abolishing the international duel) is a 1916 book by mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Printed in 1917 in response to the devastations of WWI in New York by The Century Co.{{Cite book|last=Ciment|first=James|editor-first1=James |editor-first2=Kenneth |editor-last1=Ciment |editor-last2=Hill |date=2012-12-06|title=Encyclopedia of Conflicts since World War II|doi=10.4324/9780203058664|isbn=9780203058664}}{{Cite journal|last=Gullace|first=Nicoletta F.|date=2002|title="The Blood of Our Sons": Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War.|journal=The American Historical Review|doi=10.1086/ahr/108.3.915|issn=1937-5239}}{{Cite book|last=Shearman|first=Peter|date=2017-03-20|title=The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Continuing Logic of Great Power Conflict|journal=Political Studies Review|volume=15|issue=2|pages=274–275|doi=10.1177/1478929917695825|isbn=9781849043960|issn=1478-9299}}

The work was republished with the title Principles of Social Reconstruction.{{cite web |last1=Rempel |first1=Richard |title=Principles of Social Reconstruction |url=https://www.routledge.com/Principles-of-Social-Reconstruction/Russell/p/book/9780415143493 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |access-date=3 July 2021 |language=en}}