ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction: Strategic history

chapter 1|11 pages

Themes and contexts of strategic history

chapter 2|16 pages

Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war

chapter 6|10 pages

World War I, I: Controversies

chapter 7|14 pages

World War I, II: Modern warfare

chapter 8|16 pages

The twenty-year armistice, 1919–39

chapter 9|9 pages

The mechanization of war

chapter 14|21 pages

The Cold War, I: Politics and ideology

chapter 15|14 pages

The Cold War, II: The nuclear revolution

chapter 17|10 pages

9/11 and the age of terror

chapter 19|16 pages

War, peace and international order