
The Elements of World Order
Essays on International Politics
Louis J. Halle(Author)
University Press of America
Published on 19. March 1996
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7618-0212-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains some of Louis Halle's most memorable historical and political essays. Contents: On Push-Button War; The Berlin Wall; Mr. Spaak and the Doctrine of Collective Guilt; On a Certain Impatience with Latin America; The Davies Case; Goodness is Not Enough; The Making of Foreign Policy in a Democracy; The Evolution of World Politics; On Understanding Politics; Argentina and the Formulation of American Foreign Policy; Explaining Vietnam; Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process: The American Experience; The Concept of Sovereign Equality; R. W. Livingstone and the Nature of History; Herbert Butterfield: The Historian as Philosopher; De Gaulle and the Politics of Bismarck; The Conceptual Roots of War and Genocide; Lessons of the Nuclear Age; A Hopeful Future for Humankind; The World of George Kennan; The Identification of the Enemy; Does War Have a Future?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-0212-9 (9780761802129)
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