War, Peace, and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History (Strategy & History)

✍ Scribed by Colin Gray

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new volume explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context.  In fifteen clear and concise chapters, this book hits the high and low points of international politics over a two hundred year period, plus a brief foray into the future out to 2025. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two centuries, showing how those two centuries were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. This book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars. This upper-level textbook is an invaluable resource for students of strategic studies, security studies, international relations and international history.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Maps......Page 12
Boxes and tables......Page 13
Preface......Page 14
Introduction: Strategic history......Page 16
1 Themes and contexts of strategic history......Page 19
2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war......Page 30
3 From limited war to national war: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war......Page 46
4 The nineteenth century, I: A strategic view......Page 66
5 The nineteenth century, II: Technology, warfare and international order......Page 76
6 World War I, I: Controversies......Page 90
7 World War I, II: Modern warfare......Page 100
8 The twenty-year armistice, 1919–39......Page 114
9 The mechanization of war......Page 130
10 World War II in Europe, I: The structure and course of total war......Page 139
11 World War II in Europe, II: Understanding the war......Page 158
12 World War II in Asia–Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire......Page 172
13 World War II in Asia–Pacific, II: Strategy and warfare......Page 183
14 The Cold War, I: Politics and ideology......Page 199
15 The Cold War, II: The nuclear revolution......Page 220
16 War and peace after the Cold War: An interwar decade......Page 234
17 9/11 and the age of terror......Page 250
18 Irregular warfare: Guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists......Page 260
19 War, peace and international order......Page 279
20 Conclusion: Must future strategic history resemble the past?......Page 295
Glossary......Page 297
Bibliography......Page 300
Index......Page 311