What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by leading scholars on contemporary approaches to understanding war and peace.The essays include expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of the more prominent and enduring explanations of war. Several authors discuss realist theories of war, which focus on the distribution of power and the potential for offensive war. Others examine the prominent hypothesis that the spread of democracy will usher in an era of peace. In light of the apparent increase in nationalism and ethnic conflict, several authors present hypotheses on how nationalism causes war and how such wars can be controlled. Contributors also engage in a vigorous debate on whether international institutions can promote peace. In a section on war and peace in the changing international system, several authors consider whether rising levels of international economic independence and environmental scarcity will influence the likelihood of war.
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Michael E. Brown is Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
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"Theories of War and Peace" edited by Brown, et. al. gives the reader of International Relations a "one stop shop" of various theories of International Relations. The list of contributors to this volume is impressive and the editors arrange the essays in such a way as to naturally follow and even (at times) rebut that which came before.
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Like most of "International Security" readers, this is also a compendium of realist authors in IR theory. It is more of the same until you read the wonderful response to John Mearsheimer written by Alexander Wendt. His text is worth the book. Even today Mearsheimer doesn't understand what Wendt has to say so well. If you're really into realism, maybe you should check (from the same series) "Perils of Anarchy". I think it's a lot better.
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The profound changes now underway in Europe have been widely viewed as harbingers of a new age of peace. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
institutions cause peace, contingent realism, perceived offense dominance, ethnic contracts, democratizing great powers, illiberal leaders, fellow liberal democracies, expectations for future trade, fellow liberal democracy, democratic peace theory, democratic great powers, ecological marginalization, prime predictions, intervening phenomena, explanatory predictions, democratic peace theorists, evaluative institutions, unilateral defense, greedy state, defensive expansionism, severed trade, defensive vulnerabilities, democratic peace proposition, emerging nuclear powers, democratizing states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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institutions cause peace, contingent realism, perceived offense dominance, ethnic contracts, democratizing great powers, illiberal leaders, fellow liberal democracies, expectations for future trade, fellow liberal democracy, democratic peace theory, democratic great powers, ecological marginalization, prime predictions, intervening phenomena, explanatory predictions, democratic peace theorists, evaluative institutions, unilateral defense, greedy state, defensive expansionism, severed trade, defensive vulnerabilities, democratic peace proposition, emerging nuclear powers, democratizing states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Soviet Union, Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Grasping the Democratic Peace, South Africa, Stephen Van Evera, Cambridge University Press, Gulf War, Western Europe, American Political Science Review, Columbia University Press, Great Britain, Jack Snyder, Robert Jervis, After Hegemony, Harvard University, United Nations, Wilhelmine Germany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Haven, Yale University Press, War Europe New!
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- Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz by Campbell Craig on page 61, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Konfliktbearbeitung durch internationale Organisationen (German Edition) by Klaus Brummer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Challenging America's Global Preeminence: Russia's Quest For Multipolarity by Thomas Ambrosio on page 126, and Back Matter
- Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective) by Mark Atwood Lawrence in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- To Protect And Defend: Us Homeland Security Policy (Homeland Security) (Homeland Security) by Tom Lansford on page 30, and Back Matter
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