Conflict after the Cold War : Arguments on Causes of War and Peace
ISBN: 9780205851751 | 0205851754
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 2/24/2012
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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war a... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Visions of War and Peace | p. 1 |
| The End of History? | p. 6 |
| Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War | p. 18 |
| The Clash of Civilizations? | p. 35 |
| Economics Trumps Politics | p. 54 |
| International Realism: Anarchy and Power | p. 66 |
| The Melian Dialogue | p. 69 |
| Doing Evil in Order to Do Good | p. 74 |
| The State of Nature and... MORE | p. 78 |
| Realism and Idealism | p. 82 |
| The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory | p. 100 |
| Hegemonic War and International Change | p. 107 |
| Power, Culprits, and Arms | p. 120 |
| International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation | p. 133 |
| Perpetual Peace | p. 136 |
| Peace Through Arbitration | p. 143 |
| Community of Power vs. Balance of Power | p. 146 |
| Liberalism and World Politics | p. 149 |
| Power and Interdependence | p. 164 |
| Psychology: The Human Mind and International Conflict | p. 172 |
| Why War? | p. 175 |
| How Good People Do Bad Things | p. 183 |
| Why Hawks Win | p. 190 |
| War and Misperception | p. 194 |
| Culture: Customs, Norms, and Learning | p. 211 |
| Anarchy Is What States Make of It | p. 214 |
| Spirit, Standing, and Honor | p. 236 |
| Warfare Is Only an InventionùNot a Biological Necessity | p. 244 |
| The Obsolescence of Major War | p. 249 |
| Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention | p. 262 |
| Men, Women, and War | p. 280 |
| Economics: Interests and Interdependence | p. 294 |
| Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered | p. 297 |
| The Great Illusion | p. 299 |
| Paradise Is a Bazaar | p. 301 |
| Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism | p. 309 |
| Imperialism and Capitalism | p. 317 |
| War as Policy | p. 326 |
| Structural Causes and Economic Effects | p. 339 |
| Trade and Power | p. 349 |
| Politics: Ideology and Identity | p. 364 |
| Nations and Nationalism | p. 368 |
| Democratization and War | p. 380 |
| Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars | p. 394 |
| The Troubled History of Partition | p. 412 |
| Military Technology, Strategy, and Stability | p. 421 |
| Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma | p. 425 |
| The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology | p. 442 |
| Arms Control: Historical Experience | p. 454 |
| The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better | p. 465 |
| Revolution, Unconventional Warfare, and Terrorism | p. 477 |
| The Strategic Logic of Terrorism | p. 481 |
| Religious Radicalism and Political Violence | p. 495 |
| Speech to the American People | p. 511 |
| Jihadi Networks of Terror | p. 516 |
| Science of Guerrilla Warfare | p. 530 |
| On Guerrilla Warfare | p. 539 |
| Patterns of Violence in World Politics | p. 550 |
| Insurgency and Counterinsurgency | p. 575 |
| Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency | p. 591 |
| A Strategy of Tactics: The Folly of Counterinsurgency | p. 598 |
| New Threats and Strategies for Peace | p. 611 |
| Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict | p. 614 |
| Ecoviolence | p. 629 |
| A World of Liberty Under Law | p. 641 |
| China: Can the Next Superpower Rise Without War? | p. 646 |
| Peace Among Civilizations? | p. 659 |
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Richard K. Betts is the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies on the Council of Foreign Relations, acommissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism, and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. His research interests include national security, military strategy, and international conflict, and he has published numerous articles on foreign policy, military strategy, intelligence operations, conventional forces, nuclear weapons, arms trade, collective security, strategic issues in Asia, and other subjects.
