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The Long Postwar Peace: Contending Explanations and Projections

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The Long Postwar Peace is an important chronicle of the wary superpower sparring that has characterized global politics since World War II. Editor Charles Kegley has assembled fifteen original, thought-provoking essays by J. David Singer, John Lewis Gaddis, James Rosenau, and other eminent authorities on war, peace, and world powers. As an anthology, it has no peer. Each essay, while scholarly and sophisticated, is presented in a clear and accessible manner that students will appreciate. And, since it is comprised of completely original research, this text will be cited often as a relevant compendium of source material, independent of future events.

Two central questions run throughout The Long Postwar Peace: What conditions and causes have contributed to the long period of great-power peace, and what are the prospects for maintaining this accord? This thematic thread makes the text appropriate for a variety of courses in forein policy, international relations, peace studies, and security, and also helps to keep students focused on the larger issues as they explore the spectrum of viewpoints.

Using the end of World War II as a point of departure, the anthology takes the reader through the evolving relationship between the superpowers, periods of global instability, the advent of the nuclear age, and up through the current developments such as Gorbachev's reforms and weapons expenditure issues. No other work offers such as a thorough, balanced, and original means of understanding a tumultuous past and a problematic future as The Long Postwar Peace.

--- from book's back cover