Force and folly : essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas

Author(s)

• Speier, Hans

Bibliographic Information

Force and folly : essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas

Hans Speier

（M.I.T. studies in comparative politics series）

M.I.T. Press, c1969

Note

"The papers presented here were written in the last ten years, so that this book may be regarded as a sequel to Social order and the risks of war ... first published in 1952."

Bibliographical footnotes

Contents of Works

• War and peace in the nuclear age
• International political communication : elite vs. mass
• The political value of arms
• Revolutionary War
• Soviet atomic blackmail and the North Atlantic Alliance
• The Suez crises
• Germany in American foreign policy
• The Hallstein doctrine
• On war games
• Some observations on political gaming
• The pitfalls of political humor
• The fool and social order
• Court and tavern in the German Baroque novel
• Simplicissimus, the irreverent fool
• Courage, the adventuress
• Grimmelshausen's laughter

Details

• NCID: BA26226476
• LCCN: 68030753
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 342 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D844
  • DC : 327/.1/09045
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World politics -- 1955-1965 -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01089772