Conflict After the Cold War

by Betts, Richard K.

• ISBN13: 9780321081704
• ISBN10: 0321081706
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Edited by one of the most renowned experts in the field, this collection helps readers understand the causes of wars and examines the question: can we make war obsolete? With new readings on terrorism and unconventional warfare, this volume introduces readers to the types of political violence that have come back with such horrifying force in the beginning of the 21st Century. DOES WAR HAVE A FUTURE?; ANARCHY AND POWER; INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATION; PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE; ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND INTERDEPENDENCE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY; MILITARY TECHNOLOGY; TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE. Anyone interested in understanding why political violence terrorism, warfare, unconventional warfare happens and if it can be stopped.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Introduction: Does War Have a Future?	1	(32)
The End of History?	5	(12)
Francis Fukuyama
Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War	17	(16)
John J. Mearsheimer
Part II International Realism: Anarchy and Power	33	(66)
The Melian Dialogue	37	(5)
Thucydides
Doing Evil in Order to Do Good	42	(5)
Niccolo Machavelli
The State of Nature and the State of War	47	(4)
Thomas Hobbes
Realism and Idealism	51	(17)
Edward Hallett Carr
The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory	68	(7)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Hegemonic War and International Change	75	(12)
Robert Gilpin
Power, Culprits, and Arms	87	(12)
Geoffrey Blainey
Part III International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation	99	(42)
Perpetual Peace	103	(7)
Immanuel Kant
Society and Anarchy in International Relations	110	(11)
Hedley Bull
Power and Interdependence	121	(7)
Robert O. Keohane
Joseph S. Nye
The Obsolescence of Major War	128	(13)
John Mueller
Part IV Psychology and Culture: Unconscious Sources of Conflict and Conscious Norms	141	(84)
The Moral Equivalent of War	145	(7)
William James
Why War?	152	(8)
Sigmund Freud
The Psychoanalysis of War	160	(5)
Franco Fornari
Warfare Is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity	165	(5)
Margaret Mead
Anarchy Is What States Make of It	170	(21)
Alexander Wendt
Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention	191	(16)
Martha Finnemore
The Clash of Civilizations?	207	(18)
Samuel P. Huntington
Part V Economic: Interests and Interdependence	225	(68)
Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered	229	(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Great Illusion	232	(2)
Norman Angell
Paradise Is a Bazaar	234	(8)
Geoffrey Blainey
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism	242	(7)
V.I. Lenin
Imperialism and Capitalism	249	(9)
Joseph Schumpeter
War as Policy	258	(12)
Alan S. Milward
Structural Causes and Economic Effects	270	(10)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Trade and Power	280	(13)
Richard Rosecrance
Part VI Politics: Ideology and Identity	293	(82)
Idealpolitik	297	(11)
Stanley Kober
Liberalism and World Politics	308	(16)
Michael W. Doyle
Nations and Nationalism	324	(11)
Ernest Gellner
Democratization and War	335	(13)
Edward D. Mansfield
Jack Snyder
Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars	348	(18)
Chaim Kaufmann
The Troubled History of Partition	366	(9)
Radha Kumar
Part VII Strategy: Military Technology, Doctrine, and Stability	375	(88)
Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results	379	(21)
Samuel P. Huntington
Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma	400	(16)
Robert Jervis
1914 Revisited	416	(13)
Scott D. Sagan
The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology	429	(12)
Jack S. Levy
Arms Control: The Historical Experience	441	(10)
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr.
Abram N. Shulsky
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better	451	(12)
Kenneth N. Waltz
Part VIII Transnational Tensions: Migration, Resources, and Environment	463	(46)
Security, Stability, and Migration	467	(16)
Myron Weiner
The War Over Water	483	(10)
John K. Cooley
Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict	493	(16)
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Part IX Conclusion: The Future Between Contending Forces	509
A Revolution in Warfare	511
Eliot A. Cohen
The Risks of a Networked Military	523
Richard J. Harknett
The Delusion of Impartial Intervention	537
Richard K. Betts
Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age	548
Robert O. Keohane
Joseph S. Nye
Jihad Vs. McWorld	558
Benjamin R. Barber