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War, Peace and International Relations
An introduction to strategic history
- 376 pages
- English
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About this book
War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars.
Written by leading strategist Professor Colin Gray, the book provides students with a good grounding in the contribution of war to the development of the modern world, from the pre-industrial era to the age of international terrorism and smart weapons.
This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated:
- It is the first one-volume strategic history textbook on the market;
- It covers all the major wars of the past two centuries;
- It is up to date and comprehensive, including a new section on the American Civil War, a new chapter on geography and strategy, and completely rewritten chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s and on irregular warfare.
This textbook will be essential reading for students of strategic studies, security studies, war studies, international relations and international history.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- War, Peace and International Relations
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the second edition
- Introduction: strategic history
- 1 Themes and contexts of strategic history
- 2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war
- 3 From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war
- 4 The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view
- 5 The nineteenth century, II: Technology, warfare and international order
- 6 World War I, I: controversies
- 7 World War I, II: modern warfare
- 8 The twenty-year armistice, 1919–39
- 9 The mechanization of war
- 10 World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war
- 11 World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war
- 12 World War II in Asia–Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire
- 13 World War II in Asia–Pacific, II: strategy and warfare
- 14 The Cold War, I: politics and ideology
- 15 The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution
- 16 War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade
- 17 9/11 and the age of terror
- 18 War and irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists
- 19 Geography and strategic history
- 20 War, peace and international order
- 21 Conclusion: the twenty-first century – must future strategic history resemble the past?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index