ISBN:
9781351864879
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (683 pages)
Edition:
5th ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Betts, Richard K Conflict After the Cold War : Arguments on Causes of War and Peace
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
World politics--1989-
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- PART I Visions of Conflict and Peace -- 1.1 The End of History? -- 1.2 Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War -- 1.3 The Clash of Civilizations? -- 1.4 Economics Trumps Politics -- 1.5 The Dark Side of Progress -- PART II International Realism: Anarchy and Power -- 2.1 The Melian Dialogue -- 2.2 Doing Evil in Order to Do Good -- 2.3 The State of Nature and the State of War -- 2.4 Realism and Idealism -- 2.5 The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory -- 2.6 Hegemonic War and International Change -- 2.7 Power, Culprits, and Arms -- PART III International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation -- 3.1 Perpetual Peace -- 3.2 Peace Through Arbitration -- 3.3 Community of Power vs. Balance of Power -- 3.4 Liberalism and World Politics -- 3.5 Power and Interdependence -- 3.6 The Obsolescence of Major War -- PART IV Psychology and Culture: The Human Mind, Norms, and Learning -- 4.1 Why War? -- 4.2 How Good People Do Bad Things -- 4.3 War and Misperception -- 4.4 Spirit, Standing, and Honor -- 4.5 War Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity -- 4.6 Men, Women, and War -- PART V Economics: Interests and Interdependence -- 5.1 Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered -- 5.2 The Great Illusion -- 5.3 Paradise Is a Bazaar -- 5.4 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism -- 5.5 Imperialism and Capitalism -- 5.6 War as Policy -- 5.7 Structural Causes and Economic Effects -- 5.8 Trade and Power -- 5.9 China's Choice 317 -- PART VI Politics: Ideology and Identity -- 6.1 Democratization and War -- 6.2 Nations and Nationalism -- 6.3 Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars -- 6.4 The Troubled History of Partition -- PART VII Military Technology, Strategy, and Stability -- 7.1 Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.
Abstract:
7.2 The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology -- 7.3 Why Nuclear Proliferation May Be Good -- 7.4 Drones: Technology Serves Strategy -- 7.5 Drones: Tactics Undermine Strategy -- PART VIII Terrorism, Revolution, and Unconventional Warfare -- 8.1 The Strategic Logic of Terrorism -- 8.2 Speech to the American People -- 8.3 Science of Guerrilla Warfare -- 8.4 On Guerrilla Warfare -- 8.5 Patterns of Violence in World Politics -- 8.6 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency -- 8.7 Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency -- 8.8 A Strategy of Tactics: The Folly of Counterinsurgency -- PART IX Threat Assessment and Misjudgment: Recurrent Dilemmas -- 9.1 The German Threat? 1907 -- 9.2 The German Threat? 1938 -- 9.3 The Threat to Ukraine From the West -- 9.4 The Threat From Russia -- 9.5 How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy -- 9.6 Afghanistan's Legacy : Emerging Lessons -- 9.7 China: Can the Next Superpower Rise Without War? -- PART X New Threats and Strategies for Peace -- 10.1 Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict -- 10.2 Why Cyberdeterrence Is Different -- 10.3 A World of Liberty Under Law -- 10.4 Peace Among Civilizations?.
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