Quiet cataclysm : reflections on the recent transformation of world politics
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Quiet cataclysm : reflections on the recent transformation of world politics
HarperCollins College Publishers, c1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index
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Description
Reflecting on the transformation of world politics that occurred with the end of the Cold War, this book assesses how this change happened, how it changes our views of the past and what it suggests about the future. it also asserts that the world's problems - using examples like the Cold War, the theory of Containment and democracy - are often mere reflections of differences of ideas. Like ideas, tense political situations can change rather quickly without big means and particularly without war. This book also finds that military considerations are often substantially less relevant than economic concerns to the central issues of international politics.
Table of Contents
- War, peace and the trouble in the aftermath of the quiet cataclysm
- realism and the Cold War
- arms races - postitive and negative
- expanding deterrence
- the essential irrelevance of nuclear weapons
- enough rope - overextension versus containment
- reassessing Pearl Harbour
- war - natural, but not necessary
- the historical movement of ideas - the rise of war aversion and the retreat from Doomsday
- the historical movement of ideas - the rise of democracy. Appendix: anticipated cataclysms - predictions about endless peace, terminal war and other calamities.
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