Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition

by Betts, Richard K.

• ISBN13: 9780321209467
• ISBN10: 032120946X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• 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	ix
Part I Introduction: Does War Have a Future?	1	(50)
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
The End of History?	5	(12)
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War	17	(16)
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
The Clash of Civilizations?	33	(18)
Part II International Realism: Anarchy and Power	51	(66)
THUCYDIDES
The Melian Dialogue	55	(5)
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
Doing Evil in Order to Do Good	60	(5)
THOMAS HOBBES
The State of Nature and the State of War	65	(4)
EDWARD HALLETT CARR
Realism and Idealism	69	(17)
KENNETH N. WALTZ
The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory	86	(7)
ROBERT GILPIN
Hegemonic War and International Change	93	(12)
GEOFFREY BLAINEY
Power, Culprits, and Arms	105	(12)
Part III International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation	117	(42)
IMMANUEL KANT
Perpetual Peace	121	(7)
HEDLEY BULL
Society and Anarchy in International Relations	128	(11)
ROBERT O. KEOHANE and JOSEPH S. NYE
Power and Interdependence	139	(7)
JOHN MUELLER
The Obsolescence of Major War	146	(13)
Part IV Psychology and Culture: Unconscious Sources of Conflict and Conscious Norms	159	(60)
SIGMUND FREUD
Why War?	163	(8)
FRANCO FORNARI
The Psychoanalysis of War	171	(5)
MARGARET MEAD
Warfare Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity	176	(5)
ALEXANDER WENDT
Anarchy Is What States Make of It	181	(21)
MARTHA FINNEMORE
Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention	202	(17)
Part V Economics: Interests and Interdependence	219	(68)
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered	223	(3)
NORMAN ANGELL
The Great Illusion	226	(2)
GEOFFREY BLAINEY
Paradise Is a Bazaar	228	(8)
V.I. LENIN
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism	236	(7)
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Imperialism and Capitalism	243	(9)
ALAN S. MILWARD
War as Policy	252	(12)
KENNETH N. WALTZ
Structural Causes and Economic Effects	264	(10)
RICHARD ROSECRANCE
Trade and Power	274	(13)
Part VI Politics: Ideology and Identity	287	(70)
MICHAEL W. DOYLE
Liberalism and World Politics	291	(16)
ERNEST GELLNER
Nations and Nationalism	307	(11)
EDWARD D. MANSFIELD and JACK SNYDER
Democratization and War	318	(13)
CHAIM KAUFMANN
Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars	331	(18)
RADHA KUMAR
The Troubled History of Partition	349	(8)
Part VII Strategy, I: Military Technology, Doctrine, and Stability	357	(88)
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results	361	(21)
ROBERT JERVIS
Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma	382	(16)
SCOTT D. SAGAN
1914 Revisited	398	(13)
JACK S. LEVY
The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology	411	(12)
CHARLES H. FAIRBANKS; JR. and ABRAM N. SHULSKY
Arms Control: The Historical Experience	423	(10)
KENNETH N. WALTZ
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better	433	(12)
Part VIII Strategy, II: Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare	445	(92)
T.E. LAWRENCE
Science of Guerrilla Warfare	449	(8)
MAO TSE-TUNG
On Guerrilla Warfare	457	(10)
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
Patterns of Violence in World Politics	467	(24)
MARTHA CRENSSHAW
The Strategic Logic of Terrorism	491	(14)
MARK JUERGENSMEYER
Religious Radicalism and Political Violence	505	(15)
RICHARD K. BETTS
The Soft Underbelly of Primacy	520	(17)
Part IX Transnational Tensions: Migration, Resources, and Environment	537	(46)
MYRON WEINER
Security, Stability, and Migration	541	(16)
JOHN K. COOLEY
The War Over Water	557	(10)
THOMAS F. HOMER-DIXON
Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict	567	(16)
Part X Conclusion: The Future Between Contending Forces	583
ELIOT A. COHEN
A Revolution in Warfare	585	(12)
RICHARD K. BETTS
The Delusion of Impartial Intervention	597	(11)
ROBERT O. KEOHANE and JOSEPH S. NYE
Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age	608	(10)
BENJAMIN R. BARBER
Jihad Vs. Mc World	618