Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION: DOES WAR HAVE A FUTURE?
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History?
John J. Mearseimer, Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War.
Samuel P. Huntington, The Class of Civilizations?
II. INTERNATIONAL REALISM: ANARCHY AND POWER.
Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Doing Evil in Order to Do Good.
Thomas Hobbes, The State of Nature and the State of War.
Edward Hallet Carr, Realism and Idealism.
Kenneth N. Waltz, The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory.
Robert Gilpin, Hegemonic War and International Change.
Geoffrey Blainey, Power, Culprits, and Arms.
III. INTERNATIONAL LIBERALISM: INSTITUTIONS AND
COOPERATION.
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace.
Hedley Bull, Society and Anarchy in International Relations.
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence.
John Mueller, The Obsolescence of Major War.
IV. PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE.
Sigmund Freud, Why War?
Franco Fornari, The Psychoanalysis of War.
Margaret Mead, Warfare is Only an Invention-Not a Biological
Necessity. Martha Finnemore, Constructing Norms of
Humanitarian Intervention.
Alexander Wendt, Anarchy Is What States Make of It.
V. ECONOMICS: INTERESTS AND INTERDEPENDENCE.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Money Is Not the Sinews of War, Although It Is
Generally So Considered.
Norman Angell, The Great Illusion.
Geoffrey Blainey, Paradise Is a Bazaar.
V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Joseph Schumpeter, Imperialism and Capitalism.
Alan S. Milward, War as Policy.
Kenneth N. Waltz, Structural Causes and Economic Effects.
Richard Rosecrance, Trade and Power.
VI. POLITICS: IDEOLOGY AND IDENTITY.
Michael W. Doyle, Liberalism and World Politics.
Ernest Gellner, National and Nationalism.
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, Democratization and War.
Chaim Kaufmann, Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil
Wars.
Radha Kumar, The Troubled History of Partition.
VII. STRATEGY, I: MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, DOCTRINE, AND
STABILITY.
Samuel P. Huntington, Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results.
Robert Jervis, Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma.
Scott D. Sagan, 1914 Revisited.
Jack S. Levy, The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military
Technology.
Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. and Abram N. Shulsky, Arms Control: The
Historical Experience.
Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be
Better.
VIII. STRATEGY II: TERRORISM AND UNCONVENTIONAL
WARFARE.
T.E. Lawrence, Science of Guerilla Warfare.
Mao Tse-tung, On Guerilla Warfare.
Samuel P. Huntington, Patterns of Violence in World Politics.
Martha Crenshaw, The Logic of Terrorism.
Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Radicalism and Political
Violence.
Richard K. Betts, The Soft Underbelly of Primacy.
IX. TRANSNATIONAL TENSIONS: MIGRATION, RESOURCES, AND
ENVIRONMENT.
Myron Weiner, Security, Stability, and Migration.
John K. Cooley, The War Over Water.
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute
Conflict.
X. CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE BETWEEN CONTENDING FORCES.
Eliot A. Cohen, A Revolution in Warfare.
Richard K. Betts, The Delusion of Impartial Intervention.
Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power, Interdependence, and
the Information Age.
Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld.
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