Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648–1989: 14 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 14)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/13/2014
EAN 9780521399296, ISBN10: 0521399297
Paperback, 100 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
In this book, Professor Holsti approaches the study of the origins of war and the foundations of peace from a distinct perspective. He asks three interrelated questions. Which issues generate conflict? How have attitudes towards war changed? And, what attempts have been made historically to create international orders and institutions that can manage, control or prevent international conflicts? Starting with the peace treaties of Munster and Osnabruck of 1648, Kalevi Holsti examines 177 international wars. Through these, he identifies the variety of conflict-producing issues and how they, as well as the attitudes of policy makers to the use of force, have changed over the last 350 years. He demonstrates how the orders established by the great peacemaking efforts of 1648, 1713, 1815, 1919 and 1945 attempted to solve the issues of the past, yet few successfully anticipated those of the future. Indeed, some created the basis of fresh conflicts.
Preface
1. On the study of war
2. Munster and Osnabruck
peace by pieces
3. War and peace in the era of the heroic warriors, 1648–1713
4. Act Two of the hegemony drama
the Utrecht settlements
5. The lethal minuet
war and peace among the Princes of Christendom, 1715–1814
6. Peace through equilibrium
the settlements of 1814–1815
7. Conflict and consent, 1815–1914
8. 1919
peace through democracy and covenant
9. War as the aftermath of peace
international conflict 1918–1941
10. Peace by policing
11. The diversification of warfare
issues and attitudes in the contemporary international system
12. Issues, war, and international theory
13. The peacemakers
issues and international order
Bibliography
Additional data sources
Index.