Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (Longman Classics Series)

by Nye, Joseph S.

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780321089878

ISBN10:

0321089871

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2003

Publisher(s):

Longman

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Part of the Longman Classics in Political Science Series, this highly readable and respected book balances history and theory to give international politics students a framework for analyzing the past and using it to understand the issues confronting us today. Part of the Longman Classics series, Nye's Understanding International Conflicts has been completely updated and features a new Foreword by Stanley Hoffman. A book that students enjoy reading, Nye's volume deftly balances theory and history to help students develop a well-rounded is a book that students enjoy reading, Nye's volume deftly balances theory and history to help students develop a well-rounded, informed framework for analyzing current issues and dilemmas. Updated with the most recent scholarship and replete with illustrative examples, the Fourth Edition explores the international issues confronting us at the beginning of the 21st Century. Understanding International Conflicts aims to provide students with the conceptual tools that will help them shape their own answers to the unfolding developments in our world long after exams are done.

Foreword

Preface

Is There an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics?

(31)

Two Theoretical Traditions: Realism and Liberalism

(2)

What Is International Politics?

(9)

Two Views of Anarchic Politics

(4)

Building Blocks

(4)

The Peloponnesian War

(8)

A Short Version of a Long Story

(3)

Causes and Theories

(3)

Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future

(2)

Ethical Questions and International Politics

(12)

Limits on Ethics in International Relations

(1)

Three Views of the Role of Morality

(5)

Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars

(1)

Study Questions

(1)

Notes

(1)

Selected Readings

(1)

Further Readings

(2)

Origins of the Great Twentieth-Century Conflicts

(25)

International Systems and Levels of Causation

(18)

Levels of Analysis

(2)

Systems: Structure and Process

(1)

Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments

(2)

The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth-Century System

(2)

A Modern Sequel

(1)

Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

(1)

Liberalism Revived

(3)

Liberal Democracy and War

(1)

Definition of National Interests

(1)

Variations in Foreign Policies

(2)

Counterfactuals

(7)

Plausibility

(1)

Proximity in Time

(1)

Relation to Theory

(1)

Facts

(1)

Chronologies: Europe

(1)

Study Questions

(1)

Notes

(1)

Selected Readings

(1)

Further Readings

(2)

Balance of Power and World War I

(27)

Balance of Power

(1)

Power

(9)

Balances as Distributions of Power

(1)

Balance of Power as Policy

(2)

Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems

(2)

Alliances

(1)

The Origins of World War I

(17)

Three Levels of Analysis

(6)

Was War Inevitable?

(2)

What Kind of War?

(2)

The Funnel of Choices

(2)

Lessons of History Again

(1)

Chronology: The Road to World War I

(1)

Study Questions

(1)

Notes

(1)

Selected Readings

(1)

Further Readings

(2)

The Failure of Collective Security and World War II

(28)

The Rise and Fall of Collective Security

(9)

The League of Nations

(2)

The United States and the League of Nations

(1)

The Early Days of the League

(2)

The Manchurian Failure

(1)

The Ethiopian Debacle

(2)

The Origins of World War II

(19)

Hitler's War?

(1)

Hitler's Strategy

(1)

The Role of the Individual

(2)

Systemic and Domestic Causes

(3)

Was War Inevitable?

101

(1)

The Pacific War

102

(5)

Appeasement and Two Types of War

107

(1)

Chronology: Between the World Wars

108

(1)

Study Questions

109

(1)

Notes

109

(1)

Selected Readings

110

(1)

Further Readings

110

(2)

The Cold War

112

(38)

Deterrence and Containment

113

(1)

Three Approaches to the Cold War

114

(2)

Roosevelt's Policies

116

(1)

Stalin's Policies

117

(1)

Phases of the Conflict

118

(5)

Inevitability?

123

(2)

Levels of Analysis

125

(2)

U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War

127

(1)

Containment

128

(1)

The Rest of the Cold War

129

(1)

The End of the Cold War

130

(5)

The Role of Nuclear Weapons

135

(15)

Physics and Politics

135

(3)

Balance of Terror

138

(1)

Problems of Nuclear Deterrence

139

(2)

The Cuban Missile Crisis

141

(2)

Moral Issues

143

(3)

Chronology: The Deep Cold War Years

146

(1)

Study Questions

147

(1)

Notes

148

(1)

Selected Readings

148

(1)

Further Readings

148

(2)

Intervention, Institutions, and Regional and Ethnic Conflicts

150

(35)

Ethnic Conflicts

151

(2)

Intervention and Sovereignty

153

(8)

Defining Intervention

154

(1)

Sovereignty

155

(1)

Judging Intervention

156

(1)

Exceptions to the Rule

157

(1)

Problems of Self-Determination

158

(2)

Motives, Means, and Consequences

160

(1)

International Law and Organization

161

(9)

Domestic Analogies

162

(2)

Predictability and Legitimacy

164

(1)

The Suez Canal Crisis

164

(2)

U.N. Peacekeeping and Collective Security

166

(4)

Conflicts in the Middle East

170

(15)

The Questions of Nationalism

171

(2)

The Arab-Israeli Conflicts

173

(4)

The 1991 Gulf War and Its Aftermath

177

(3)

Chronology: The Arab-Israeli Conflict

180

(2)

Study Questions

182

(1)

Notes

182

(1)

Selected Readings

182

(1)

Further Readings

183

(2)

Globalization and Interdependence

185

(29)

The Dimensions of Globalization

186

(10)

What's New about 21st Century Globalization?

189

(3)

Cultural Homogenization?

192

(1)

Political Reactions to Globalization

193

(2)

Economic Interdependence and Conflict

195

(1)

The Concept of Interdependence

196

(10)

Sources of Interdependence

196

(1)

Benefits of Interdependence

197

(2)

Costs of Interdependence

199

(2)

Symmetry of Interdependence

201

(2)

Leadership in the World Economy

203

(2)

Realism and Complex Interdependence

205

(1)

The Politics of Oil

206

(8)

Oil as a Power Resource

210

(1)

Study Questions

211

(1)

Notes

211

(1)

Selected Readings

212

(1)

Further Readings

212

(2)

The Information Revolution, Transnational Actors, and the Diffusion of Power

214

(24)

Power and the Information Revolution

214

(7)

Lessons from the Past

215

(2)

A New World Politics?

217

(1)

Sovereignty and Control

218

(3)

Transnational Actors

221

(6)

Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)

224

(2)

Transnational Terrorism

226

(1)

Information and Power among States

227

(11)

Three Dimensions of Information

230

(1)

The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence

230

(2)

The Information Revolution and Democratization

232

(2)

Study Questions

234

(1)

Notes

235

(1)

Selected Readings

235

(1)

Further Readings

236

(2)

A New World Order?

238

(21)

Alternative Designs for the Future

238

(12)

The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations?

243

(1)

Technology and the Diffusion of Power

243

(4)

Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

247

(2)

Transnational Threats and the Concept of Security

249

(1)

A New World Order?

250

(5)

Future Configurations of Power

251

(1)

The Prison of Old Concepts

252

(2)

The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order

254

(1)

Thinking About the Future

255

(4)

Study Questions

256

(1)

Notes

256

(1)

Selected Readings

257

(1)

Further Readings

257

(2)

Credits

259

Index

26l

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