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Conflict After the Cold War

ISBN: 9780321081704 | 0321081706
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
Assembled by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this collection aims to help readers sort out the main debates concerning the possibility and place of war in the post-Cold War world. Is war likely to remain a major problem now that the Cold War is well behind us? The essays in this collection outline contrasting arguments about the future of the post-Cold War world and puts them in philosophical and historical context. Professor Betts has framed the readings in a topically organized and ideologically balanced survey of the most rel... MORE
Prefacevii
Part I Introduction: Does War Have a Future?1(32)
The End of History?
5(12)
Francis Fukuyama
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Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War
17(16)
John J. Mearsheimer
Part II International Realism: Anarchy and Power33(66)
The Melian Dialogue
37(5)
Thucydides
Doing Evil in Order to Do Good
42(5)
Niccolo Machavelli
The State of Nature and the State of War
47(4)
Thomas Hobbes
Realism and Idealism
51(17)
Edward Hallett Carr
The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory
68(7)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Hegemonic War and International Change
75(12)
Robert Gilpin
Power, Culprits, and Arms
87(12)
Geoffrey Blainey
Part III International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation99(42)
Perpetual Peace
103(7)
Immanuel Kant
Society and Anarchy in International Relations
110(11)
Hedley Bull
Power and Interdependence
121(7)
Robert O. Keohane
Joseph S. Nye
The Obsolescence of Major War
128(13)
John Mueller
Part IV Psychology and Culture: Unconscious Sources of Conflict and Conscious Norms141(84)
The Moral Equivalent of War
145(7)
William James
Why War?
152(8)
Sigmund Freud
The Psychoanalysis of War
160(5)
Franco Fornari
Warfare Is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity
165(5)
Margaret Mead
Anarchy Is What States Make of It
170(21)
Alexander Wendt
Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention
191(16)
Martha Finnemore
The Clash of Civilizations?
207(18)
Samuel P. Huntington
Part V Economic: Interests and Interdependence225(68)
Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered
229(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Great Illusion
232(2)
Norman Angell
Paradise Is a Bazaar
234(8)
Geoffrey Blainey
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
242(7)
V.I. Lenin
Imperialism and Capitalism
249(9)
Joseph Schumpeter
War as Policy
258(12)
Alan S. Milward
Structural Causes and Economic Effects
270(10)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Trade and Power
280(13)
Richard Rosecrance
Part VI Politics: Ideology and Identity293(82)
Idealpolitik
297(11)
Stanley Kober
Liberalism and World Politics
308(16)
Michael W. Doyle
Nations and Nationalism
324(11)
Ernest Gellner
Democratization and War
335(13)
Edward D. Mansfield
Jack Snyder
Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars
348(18)
Chaim Kaufmann
The Troubled History of Partition
366(9)
Radha Kumar
Part VII Strategy: Military Technology, Doctrine, and Stability375(88)
Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results
379(21)
Samuel P. Huntington
Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma
400(16)
Robert Jervis
1914 Revisited
416(13)
Scott D. Sagan
The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology
429(12)
Jack S. Levy
Arms Control: The Historical Experience
441(10)
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr.
Abram N. Shulsky
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better
451(12)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Part VIII Transnational Tensions: Migration, Resources, and Environment463(46)
Security, Stability, and Migration
467(16)
Myron Weiner
The War Over Water
483(10)
John K. Cooley
Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict
493(16)
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Part IX Conclusion: The Future Between Contending Forces509
A Revolution in Warfare
511
Eliot A. Cohen
The Risks of a Networked Military
523
Richard J. Harknett
The Delusion of Impartial Intervention
537
Richard K. Betts
Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age
548
Robert O. Keohane
Joseph S. Nye
Jihad Vs. McWorld
558
Benjamin R. Barber

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