The Use of Force
Military Power and International Politics
Rowman & Littlefield (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 31. August 1999
Book
Hardback
490 pages
978-0-8476-9553-9 (ISBN)
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Description
The fifth edition of this classic text retains the best from earlier editions and adds sixteen new selections that highlight emerging issues, such as NATO expansion, intervention in ethnic conflicts, and the relevance of force in the twenty-first century. Strategies for using force, together with case studies that illustrate the general principles, are hallmarks of the text. Visit our website for sample chapters!
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9553-9 (9780847695539)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Book
07/2003
6th Edition
Rowman & Littlefield
€106.66
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Content
Strategies for the use of force: the fungibility of force, Robert J. Art; the sources of military doctrine, Barry M. Posen; offense, defense, and the causes of war, Stephen Van Evera; international terrorism - a new mode of conflict, Brian M. Jenkins; the unimpressive record of atomic diplomacy, McGeorge Bundy; the utility of nuclear deterrence, Robert Jervis; nuclear myths and political realities, Kenneth N. Waltz. Case studies in the great power use of force: the cult of the offensive in 1914, Jack Snyder; Hitler and the Blitzkrieg Strategy, John J. Mearsheimer; Japan's fatal blunder, George Sansom; the decision to use the atomic bomb, Louis Morton; the Korean War, Morton H. Halperin; the essence of revision - the Cuban Missile Crisis, David Welch, James G. Blight and Bruce J. Allyn; implementing flexible response - Vietnam as a test case, John Lewis Gaddis; nuclear weapons and the 1973 Middle East crisis, Barry M. Blechman and Douglas M. Hart; how Kuwait was won - strategy in the Gulf War, Lawrence Freedman and Effraim Karsh; Bosnia - triumph of the lack of will, James Gow. Military issues in the current era: from preponderance to offshore balancing, Christopher Layne; courting disaster - an expanded NATO versus Russia and China, Bruce Russett and Allan C. Stam; the strategy of selective engagement, Robert J. Art; what is the threat? Steve Fetter; peace, stability and nuclear weapons, Kenneth N. Waltz; why nuclear spread is dangerous, Scott D. Sagan; intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars, Chaim Kaufmann; military responses to refugee disasters, Barry M. Posen; the obsolescence of major war, John Mueller; paths to peace - is democracy the answer? Miriam Fendius Elman; the utility of force in a world of scarcity, John Orme.