Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

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Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war and peace. New to the Fifth Edition: Original introductions to each of 10 major parts as well as to the book as a whole have been updated by the author. An entirely new section (Part IX) on "Threat Assessment and Misjudgment" explores fundamental problems in diagnosing danger, understanding strategic choices, and measuring costs against benefits in wars over limited stakes. 12 new readings have been added or revised: Fred C. Iklé, "The Dark Side of Progress" G. John Ikenberry, "China’s Choice" Kenneth N. Waltz, "Why Nuclear Proliferation May Be Good" Daniel Byman, "Drones: Technology Serves Strategy" Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Drones: Tactics Undermine Strategy" Eyre Crowe and Thomas Sanderson, "The German Threat? 1907" Neville Henderson, "The German Threat? 1938" Vladimir Putin, "The Threat to Ukraine from the West" Eliot A. Cohen, "The Russian Threat" James C. Thomson, Jr., "How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy" Stephen Biddle, "Afghanistan’s Legacy" Martin C. Libicki, "Why Cyberdeterrence is Different" Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, 5th Edition Contents Preface Part I: Visions of Conflict and Peace 1.1 The End of History? 1.2 Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War 1.3 The Clash of Civilizations? 1.4 Economics Trumps Politics 1.5 The Dark Side of Progress Part II: International Realism: Anarchy and Power 2.1 The Melian Dialogue 2.2 Doing Evil in Order to Do Good 2.3 The State of Nature and the State of War 2.4 Realism and Idealism 2.5 The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory 2.6 Hegemonic War and International Change 2.7 Power, Culprits, and Arms Part III: International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation 3.1 Perpetual Peace 3.2 Peace Through Arbitration 3.3 Community of Power vs. Balance of Power 3.4 Liberalism and World Politics 3.5 Power and Interdependence 3.6 The Obsolescence of Major War Part IV: Psychology and Culture: The Human Mind, Norms, and Learning 4.1 Why War? 4.2 How Good People Do Bad Things 4.3 War and Misperception 4.4 Spirit, Standing, and Honor 4.5 War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity 4.6 Men, Women, and War Part V: Economics: Interests and Interdependence 5.1 Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is Generally So Considered 5.2 The Great Illusion 5.3 Paradise Is a Bazaar 5.4 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism 5.5 Imperialism and Capitalism 5.6 War as Policy 5.7 Structural Causes and Economic Effects 5.8 Trade and Power 5.9 China’s Choice Part VI: Politics: Ideology and Identity 6.1 Democratization and War 6.2 Nations and Nationalism 6.3 Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars 6.4 The Troubled History of Partition Part VII: Military Technology, Strategy, and Stability 7.1 Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma 7.2 The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology 7.3 Why Nuclear Proliferation May Be Good 7.4 Drones: Technology Serves Strategy 7.5 Drones: Tactics Undermine Strategy Part VIII: Terrorism, Revolution, and Unconventional Warfare 8.1 The Strategic Logic of Terrorism 8.2 Speech to the American People 8.3 Science of Guerrilla Warfare 8.4 On Guerrilla Warfare 8.5 Patterns of Violence in World Politics 8.6 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency 8.7 Principles, Imperatives, and Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency 8.8 A Strategy of Tactics: The Folly of Counterinsurgency Part IX: Threat Assessment and Misjudgment: Recurrent Dilemmas 9.1 The German Threat? 1907 9.2 The German Threat? 1938 9.3 The Threat to Ukraine From the West 9.4 The Threat From Russia 9.5 How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy 9.6 Afghanistan’s Legacy : Emerging Lessons 9.7 China: Can the Next Superpower Rise Without War? Part X: New Threats and Strategies for Peace 10.1 Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict 10.2 Why Cyberdeterrence Is Different 10.3 A World of Liberty Under Law 10.4 Peace Among Civilizations?