Understanding international conflicts : an introduction to theory and history
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Understanding international conflicts : an introduction to theory and history
HarperCollins, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This introductory text aims to initiate undergraduates to the complexities of international politics. It serves as an example of how to think about this complex and confusing domain, balancing theory and history so students will develop an informed mental framework with which to analyze current issues and dilemmas. The book can be used as a supplement or as a core text for an introductory course.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Is there an enduring logic of conflict in world politics?: two theoretical traditions - realism and liberalism
- The Peloponnesian War and the security dilemma
- ethical questions. Part 2 Origins of the great 20th-century conflicts: international systems and levels of analysis
- structure and process of the 19th-century European system
- domestic politics and foreign policy
- counterfactuals. Part 3 World War I: balance of power
- the origins of World War 1. Part 4 World War II: the rise and fall of collective security
- the origins of World War II. Part 5 the Cold War: origins of the Cold War, the end of the Cold War
- the role of nuclear war. Part 6 Intervention, institutions and regional conflicts: sovereignty and intervention
- international law and organization
- conflicts in the Middle East. Part 7: Interdependence and power: types of interdependence
- complex interdependence
- the 1973 Oil Crisis. Part 8 A new world order?: alternative designs for the future
- nationalism and transnationalism - concepts of world order
- thinking about the future.
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