Conflict After the Cold War

Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

• Author(s): Richard Betts,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 722
• ISBN_10: 1000513297
  ISBN_13: 9781000513295
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / International Relations / Arms Control , Political Science / Peace , Political Science / Public Policy / Military Policy , History / General , Political Science / General , Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , Technology & Engineering / Military Science , History / World , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ,

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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.