Norman Angell and the Futility of War
Author: John Donald Bruce Miller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-06-18
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 134907523X
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Author: John Donald Bruce Miller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-06-18
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 134907523X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Donald Bruce Miller
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780312577735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life of Angell, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933, discusses the major themes of his writings, and applies his philosophy to the history of the two world wars and the problem of nuclear proliferation
Author: John Donald Bruce Miller
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1610393066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.
Author: David Paul Crook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-03-17
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521466455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exciting reinterpretation of Social Darwinism, questioning conventional assumptions and proffering an alternative reading of a discourse of 'peace biology'.
Author: Martin Ceadel
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780191721762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of one of the 20th century's leading internationalists, Sir Norman Angell, author of 'The Great Illusion', Labour MP, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, reveals that his life has hitherto been much misrepresented and misunderstood.
Author: John Mueller
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781934849170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. Mearsheimer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003-01-17
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 0393076245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear, eloquent prose, John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia, while the United States, determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon, will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.
Author: Brian Schmidt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1136319123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place in the 1940s. The story of the first great debate continues to structure the contemporary identity of International Relations, yet in recent years revisionist historians have challenged the conventional wisdom that the field experienced such a debate. Drawing on expert contributors working in Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this book includes key participants in the historiographical controversy. The book assembles the existing scholarship and provides a thorough analysis of the status of the first great debate in the history of International Relations. It is an invaluable examination of the causes and future direction of idealist and realist arguments. International Relations and the First Great Debate will be of interest to students and scholars concerned with the foundations of International Relations.
Author: Martin Ceadel
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780199241170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding on his previous authoritative work on the British peace movement, Ceadel has produced a definitive historical analysis of its era of maturity - from the Crimean War to the Second World War.