Hegemonic rivalry : from Thucydides to the nuclear age

Author(s)

• Lebow, Richard Ned
• Strauss, Barry S.

Bibliographic Information

Hegemonic rivalry : from Thucydides to the nuclear age

edited by Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss

（New approaches to peace and security）

Westview Press, 1991

Note

"Product of a conference in June 1988 ... in Cadenabbia, Italy"--Acknowledgments

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is an exploration of the nature and implications of great power rivalry which brings together historians, classicists and political scientists to examine the similarities and differences between present-day superpower relations and the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC. It uses these two conflicts to test the validity and explanatory power of realism, power transition theory and other approaches to undestanding war, and seeks to distinguish between generic and idiosyncratic causes and manifestations of conflict.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Thucydides and international relations - introduction, Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss. Part 2 Basic themes: theory and practice, W.G. Forrest
• Thucydides and great power rivalry, W.R. Connor
• Peloponnesian War and Cold War, Robert Gilpin. Part 3 Bipolar or multipolar?: polarization in Thucydides, W.R. Connor
• bipolarity and war - what makes the difference?, Carlo M. Santoro
• scontro di blocchi e azione di terze forze nello scoppio della Guerra del Peloponneso, Marta Sordi. Part 4 Power transition and war: Contemporary international relations theory and the Peloponnesian War, Mark V. Kauppi
• Thucydides, power transition theory and the causes of war, Richard Ned Lebow. Part 5 Realism and its critics: Thucydides - a realist?, Michael W. Doyle
• of balances, bandwagons and Ancient Greeks, Barry S. Strauss. Part 6 Democracies and the lessons of war: democracies, authoritarian states and international conflict, Matthew Evangelista
• Athens, the United States and democratic "characteristics" in foreign policy, Philip A.G. Sabin
• national ideology and strategic defence of the population, from Athens to star wars, Josiah Ober
• hegemony and Arkhe in Greece - 4th-century BC views, Shalom Perlman.

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Details

• NCID: BA12590277
• ISBN:
  • 0813377447
• LCCN: 90024418
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 295 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JX2011
  • DC20 : 327.1/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : International relations -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Security, International -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Athens (Greece) -- National security -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Sparta (Ancient city) -- National security -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : United States -- National security -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Soviet Union -- National security -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04919650