On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
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Theory of War
Author: Joan Brady
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1849839530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A modern work of genius' Spectator Winner of the Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1993 Forced into slavery as a child, Jonathan Carrick escapes to a new life but within him lies the need for revenge against George Stokes, the son of his former master. Mallory Carrick, confined to a wheelchair, seeks to find out the truth about her grandfather's history. Haunting, elegant and passionate, Theory of War is a novel about how the past lives on through following generations. It follows one woman's journey to discover what her grandfather might have experienced and how his suffering still haunts his descendants.
Theories of War and Peace
Author: Michael E. Brown
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998-09-15
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780262522526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew approaches to understanding war and peace in the changing international system. What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by leading scholars on contemporary approaches to understanding war and peace. The essays include expositions, analyses, and critiques of some of the more prominent and enduring explanations of war. Several authors discuss realist theories of war, which focus on the distribution of power and the potential for offensive war. Others examine the prominent hypothesis that the spread of democracy will usher in an era of peace. In light of the apparent increase in nationalism and ethnic conflict, several authors present hypotheses on how nationalism causes war and how such wars can be controlled. Contributors also engage in a vigorous debate on whether international institutions can promote peace. In a section on war and peace in the changing international system, several authors consider whether rising levels of international economic independence and environmental scarcity will influence the likelihood of war.
The New Art of War
Author: Geoffrey F. Weiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 1108943810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfighting, strategy, and policy. To remedy this problem, Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious new survey of war's nature, character, and future in the tradition of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. He begins by melding philosophical and military concepts to reveal war's origins and to analyze war theory's foundational ideas. Then, leveraging science, philosophy, and the wisdom of war's master theorists, Colonel Weiss presents a genuinely original framework and lexicon that characterizes and clarifies the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains how and why war changes form; offers a methodology for forecasting future war; and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity. The New Art of War is an indispensable guide for understanding human conflict that will change how we think and communicate about war.
International Relations Theory of War
Author: Ofer Israeli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-04-10
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1440871353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 1816–2016, this book deals extensively with the international system as well as the territorial outcomes of several key wars that were waged during that time period, providing an instructive lesson in diplomatic history and international relations among global powers. Based on an in-depth review of the leading theories in the field of international relations, International Relations Theory of War explains an innovative theory on the international system, developed by the author, that he applies comprehensively to a large number of case studies. The book argues that there is a unipolar system that represents a kind of innovation relative to other systemic theories. It further posits that unipolar systems will be less stable than bipolar systems and more stable than multipolar systems, providing new insights relative to other theories that argue that unipolar systems are the most stable ones. The first chapter is devoted to explaining the manner of action of the two dependent variables—systemic international outcome and intra-systemic international outcome. The second chapter presents the international relations theory of war and its key assumptions. The third chapter precisely defines the distribution of power in the system. The fourth chapter examines the theory's two key phenomena. The fifth and last chapter presents the book's conclusions by examining the theoretical assumptions of the international relations theory of war.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
Author: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0199300984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors focus on the multidimensionality of gender in conflict, yet they also prioritise the experience of women given both the changing nature of war and the historical de-emphasis on women's experiences.
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Author: Robert Gilpin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-02-24
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521379557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in preventing a contemporary nuclear war.
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War
Author: Fritz Allhoff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-26
Total Pages: 605
ISBN-13: 1136260994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges: • What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in bello—and the constituent principles that follow from this distinction—play in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war? • What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory? • Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict? • Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare? • What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories? Over the course of three key sections, the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory. This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, war and ethics, peace and conflict studies, philosophy and security studies.
Just War Theory
Author: Mark Evans
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-01-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0748680888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.
War and the State
Author: R. Harrison Wagner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2007-08-31
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0472069810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes the deep logical contradictions of Realist political thought and counters it with a new, more robust theory of war
