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War, Peace and International Relations - Colin S. Gray

War, Peace and International Relations

An introduction to strategic history

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-38639-5 (ISBN)
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Explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. This book presents the high and low points of international politics over a two hundred year period. It offers an introduction to the international history of the past two centuries, showing how those two centuries were shaped and reshaped extensively by war.
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.

Colin S. Gray is professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. He has published 20 books and innumerable journal articles.

1. Strategic History, 1800-2025: Themes and Contexts 2. Carl von Clausewitz and the Theory of War 3. From Limited War to National War: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Way of War 4. The Nineteenth Century, I: A Strategic View 5. The Nineteenth Century, II: Technology, Warfare, and International Order 6. The Great War and the Invention of Modern Warfare, 1914-18 7. The Twenty-Year Armistice, 1919-1939 8. The Second World War in Europe, I: The Structure and Course of Total War 9. The Second World War in Europe, II: Understanding the War 10. The Second World War in Asia-Pacific, I: Politics 11. The Second World War in Asia-Pacific, II: Strategy 12. The Cold War, I: Politics and Ideology 13. The Cold War, II: The Nuclear Revolution 14. War and Peace After the Cold War: The Interwar Decade 15. 9/11 and the Age of Terror

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.4.2007
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 612 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-415-38639-X / 041538639X
ISBN-13 978-0-415-38639-5 / 9780415386395
Zustand Neuware
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