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Conflict After the Cold War, Updated Edition, 2/E
Richard K. Betts, Columbia University

ISBN-10: 032120946X
ISBN-13: 9780321209467

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 640 pp
Status: Out of Print

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With new readings on terrorism and unconventional warfare, this Update Edition walks readers through debates concerning the shape of world politics in the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era.

Assembled by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' reader outlines contrasting arguments concerning the future of the post 9-11 world, within a philosophical and historical context. These essays are topically organized and ideologically balanced. Through this collection of essays, your student will examine the political, economic, social, and military factors that tend of cause war and whether these causes can be made obsolete.

  • Reviewers laud this reader for its inclusion of the most prominent experts and core articles, its choice of topics, its academic focus, retention of footnotes, and the cohesiveness of its article selection.
  • Offers a cohesiveness not often found in readers. Articles were selected in a strategic, focused manner so that they actually “speak” to one another (i.e., they reference the same names and works and invoke the same debates and conclusions reached by the others).
  • Selections are drawn from the realist and liberalist schools of thought, which preserves intellectual and pedagogical coherence.
  • The author, Richard Betts, is the Director of the Institute of War & Peace Studies at Columbia University, and one of the foremost scholars in the field.

  • A new section, Part VIII, brings the reader up-to-date, dealing with the topics of terrorism, unconventional warfare, and political instability that have emerged with such terrible force in the 21st Century. Authors include: T.E. Lawrence, Mao Tse-tung, Samuel P. Huntington, Martha Crenshaw, Mark Jurgensmeyer, and Richard K. Betts.

I. INTRODUCTION: DOES WAR HAVE A FUTURE?

Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?

John J. Mearseimer, Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War.

Samuel P. Huntington, The Class of Civilizations?

II. INTERNATIONAL REALISM: ANARCHY AND POWER.

Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Doing Evil in Order to Do Good.

Thomas Hobbes, The State of Nature and the State of War.

Edward Hallet Carr, Realism and Idealism.

Kenneth N. Waltz, The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory.

Robert Gilpin, Hegemonic War and International Change.

Geoffrey Blainey, Power, Culprits, and Arms.

III. INTERNATIONAL LIBERALISM: INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATION.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace.

Hedley Bull, Society and Anarchy in International Relations.

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence.

John Mueller, The Obsolescence of Major War.

IV. PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE.

Sigmund Freud, Why War?

Franco Fornari, The Psychoanalysis of War.

Margaret Mead, Warfare is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity.
 
Martha Finnemore, Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention.

Alexander Wendt, Anarchy Is What States Make of It.

V. ECONOMICS: INTERESTS AND INTERDEPENDENCE.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered.

Norman Angell, The Great Illusion.

Geoffrey Blainey, Paradise Is a Bazaar.

V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Capitalism.

Alan S. Milward, War as Policy.

Kenneth N. Waltz, Structural Causes and Economic Effects.

Richard Rosecrance, Trade and Power.

VI. POLITICS: IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY.

Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics.

Ernest Gellner, National and Nationalism.

Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratization and War.

Chaim Kaufmann, Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars.

Radha Kumar, The Troubled History of Partition.

VII. STRATEGY, I: MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, DOCTRINE, AND STABILITY.

Samuel P. Huntington, Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results.

Robert Jervis, Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.

Scott D. Sagan, 1914 Revisited.

Jack S. Levy, The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology.

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. and Abram N. Shulsky, Arms Control: The Historical Experience.

Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better.

VIII. STRATEGY II: TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE.

T.E. Lawrence, Science of Guerilla Warfare.

Mao Tse-tung, On Guerilla Warfare.

Samuel P. Huntington, Patterns of Violence in World Politics.

Martha Crenshaw, The Logic of Terrorism.

Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Radicalism and Political Violence.

Richard K. Betts, The Soft Underbelly of Primacy.

IX. TRANSNATIONAL TENSIONS: MIGRATION, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT.

Myron Weiner, Security, Stability, and Migration.

John K. Cooley, The War Over Water.

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict.

X. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE BETWEEN CONTENDING FORCES.

Eliot A. Cohen, A Revolution in Warfare.

Richard K. Betts, The Delusion of Impartial Intervention.

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power, Interdependence, and the Information Age.

Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld.

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