ABSTRACT
Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard K. Betts’s 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 in 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 Sixth Edition
- Eight new readings covering issues that have grown in salience since the previous edition or that present new interpretations of answers to old problems, including pieces by Robert Kagan, Edward O. Wilson, Scott D. Sagan, Robert Jervis and Jason Healey, Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Oystein Tunsjo, and Michael Beckley.
- Updated volume and chapter introductions and a new reading by Richard K. Betts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|64 pages
Visions of Conflict and Peace
part II|62 pages
International Realism: Anarchy and Power
part III|51 pages
International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation
part IV|58 pages
Psychology and Culture: The Human Mind, Norms, and Learning
part V|67 pages
Economics: Interests and Interdependence
part VI|53 pages
Politics: Ideology and Identity
part VII|108 pages
Military Technology, Strategy, and Stability
part VIII|108 pages
Terrorism, Revolution, and Unconventional Warfare
part IX|81 pages
Threat Assessment and Misjudgment: Recurrent Dilemmas
part X|54 pages
New Threats and Strategies for Peace