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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition Richard K. Betts

Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition By Richard K. Betts

Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition by Richard K. Betts


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The essays in this updated edition outline contrasting arguments about the future of the post-9/11 world, putting the arguments in philosophical and historical context. Professor Betts examines the arguments about what political, economic, social and military factors tend to cause war and whether such causes can be made obsolete.

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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition Summary

Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition by Richard K. Betts

Edited by one of the most renowned experts in the field, Conlict After the Cold War helps readers understand the causes of wars and examines the question: can we make war obsolete? In the wake of 9/11, new readings on terrorism and unconventional warfare have been added, to introduce readers to the types of political violence that have come back with such horrifying force in the beginning of the 21st Century. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding why political violence?terrorism, warfare, unconventional warfare?happens and if it can be stopped.

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION: DOES WAR HAVE A FUTURE?

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?
John J. Mearseimer, Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War.
Samuel P. Huntington, The Class of Civilizations?

II. INTERNATIONAL REALISM: ANARCHY AND POWER.

Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Doing Evil in Order to Do Good.
Thomas Hobbes, The State of Nature and the State of War.
Edward Hallet Carr, Realism and Idealism.
Kenneth N. Waltz, The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory.
Robert Gilpin, Hegemonic War and International Change.
Geoffrey Blainey, Power, Culprits, and Arms.

III. INTERNATIONAL LIBERALISM: INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATION.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace.
Hedley Bull, Society and Anarchy in International Relations.
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence.
John Mueller, The Obsolescence of Major War.

IV. PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE.

Sigmund Freud, Why War?
Franco Fornari, The Psychoanalysis of War.
Margaret Mead, Warfare is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity. Martha Finnemore, Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention.
Alexander Wendt, Anarchy Is What States Make of It.

V. ECONOMICS: INTERESTS AND INTERDEPENDENCE.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered.
Norman Angell, The Great Illusion.
Geoffrey Blainey, Paradise Is a Bazaar.
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Capitalism.
Alan S. Milward, War as Policy.
Kenneth N. Waltz, Structural Causes and Economic Effects.
Richard Rosecrance, Trade and Power.

VI. POLITICS: IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY.

Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics.
Ernest Gellner, National and Nationalism.
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratization and War.
Chaim Kaufmann, Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars.
Radha Kumar, The Troubled History of Partition.

VII. STRATEGY, I: MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, DOCTRINE, AND STABILITY.

Samuel P. Huntington, Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results.
Robert Jervis, Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.
Scott D. Sagan, 1914 Revisited.
Jack S. Levy, The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology.
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. and Abram N. Shulsky, Arms Control: The Historical Experience.
Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better.

VIII. STRATEGY II: TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE.

T.E. Lawrence, Science of Guerilla Warfare.
Mao Tse-tung, On Guerilla Warfare.
Samuel P. Huntington, Patterns of Violence in World Politics.
Martha Crenshaw, The Logic of Terrorism.
Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Radicalism and Political Violence.
Richard K. Betts, The Soft Underbelly of Primacy.

IX. TRANSNATIONAL TENSIONS: MIGRATION, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT.

Myron Weiner, Security, Stability, and Migration.
John K. Cooley, The War Over Water.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict.

X. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE BETWEEN CONTENDING FORCES.

Eliot A. Cohen, A Revolution in Warfare.
Richard K. Betts, The Delusion of Impartial Intervention.
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age.
Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld.

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CIN032120946XG
9780321209467
032120946X
Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition by Richard K. Betts
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Taylor & Francis Inc
20040804
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