Why Nations Go To War

by Stoessinger, John G.

• ISBN13: 9780495797180
• ISBN10: 0495797189
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-18
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR is unique. The reflections of author John G. Stoessinger are built around ten case studies and provide a deep analysis of the root causes of modern war, from from World War I to the modern day. The author's main emphasis is on the pivotal role of the personalities of leaders who take their nations, or their following, across the threshold into war. Students are sure to remember Stoessinger's thoughts on war long after their completion of his book. The new 11th edition is completely updated, including references to the recent elections in Afghanistan.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of Maps	p. xi
About the Author	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
“Rendezvous”	p. xvii
The Iron Dice: World War I	p. 3
The Kaiser's Fateful Pledge	p. 5
The Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia	p. 7
The Closing Trap	p. 11
The Iron Dice	p. 16
Conclusion	p. 23
Notes	p. 26
Selected Bibliography	p. 28
Barbarossa: Hitler's Attack on Russia	p. 31
Hitler and Russia	p. 32
Stalin and Germany	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 54
Afterword: Seventy Years Later	p. 58
Notes	p. 58
Selected Bibliography	p. 60
The Temptations of Victory: Korea	p. 63
President Truman's Decision	p. 65
General Macarthur's Gamble	p. 76
North Korea's Brinksmanship	p. 87
Notes	p. 98
Selected Bibliography	p. 101
A Greek Tragedy in Five Acts: Vietnam	p. 103
Truman—Asia was not Europe	p. 104
Eisenhower—The Lesson of France Ignored	p. 108
Kennedy—The Military	p. 112
Johnson—The Catastrophe	p. 118
Nixon—Full Circle	p. 126
Conclusion	p. 130
Notes	p. 133
Selected Bibliography	p. 135
From Sarajevo to Kosovo: The Wars of Europe's Last Dictator	p. 137
The Dismemberment of Yugoslavia Begins	p. 140
The War in Bosnia	p. 143
The Tide Turns Against the Serbs	p. 149
The Dayton Peace Accords	p. 151
The UN War Crimes Tribunal	p. 153
Kosovo and Milosevic's Downfall	p. 157
Conclusion: A New Dawn of Peace with Justice?	p. 168
Notes	p. 172
Selected Bibliography	p. 174
In the Name of God: Hindus and Moslems in India and Pakistan	p. 177
Colonialism, Partition, and War	p. 178
The Kashmir War of 1965	p. 186
The Bloody Dawn of Bangladesh	p. 190
Nuclear Viagra	p. 200
India's 9/11: Mumbai, November 2008	p. 207
Conclusion	p. 209
Notes	p. 210
Selected Bibliography	p. 212
The Sixty YearsÆ War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs	p. 215
The Palestine War of 1948	p. 216
The Sinai Campaign and the Suez Crisis of 1956	p. 226
The Six-Day War of 1967	p. 233
The October War of 1973	p. 241
The Lebanese Tragedy	p. 251
The Palestinian Uprising	p. 254
The Peace Process: Between Fear and Hope	p. 257
The Second Palestinian Uprising and the Road Map	p. 260
History Interrupted	p. 266
“Giving War a Chance”: America, Israel, and Hezbollah	p. 270
War Over Gaza	p. 283
Conclusion	p. 284
Notes	p. 287
Selected Bibliography	p. 289
The War Lover: Saddam Hussein's Wars against Iran and Kuwait	p. 293
The Iran-Iraq War: The Price of Martyrdom	p. 294
Saddam's Aggression Against Kuwait	p. 299
Notes	p. 318
Selected Bibliography	p. 319
New Wars for a New Century: America and the World of Islam	p. 323
From Pragmatist to Crusader	p. 326
War Drums	p. 332
The “War After the War”: Dilemmas of Occupation	p. 337
The Capture of Saddam	p. 344
Mission Accomplished?	p. 348
Elections in Iraq	p. 349
The Descent Into Civil War	p. 351
Law and Society Under Islam: Three Vignettes	p. 358
Nato's War in Afghanistan	p. 358
The Iranian People's Uprising of 2009 and the Nuclear Crisis	p. 365
The Trial of Saddam Hussein	p. 376
Reflections on Iraq's Past and Future	p. 380
What Went Wrong?	p. 381
What Can be Done to Set Things Right?	p. 383
Conclusion: Perils of Empire	p. 390
Notes	p. 391
Selected Bibliography	p. 393
Why Nations Go to War	p. 396
The Determinants of War	p. 398
Heart of Darkness: Rwanda and Darfur	p. 411
Learning from History	p. 417
Notes	p. 422
Selected Bibliography	p. 423
Epilogue	p. 426
Index	p. 433
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