Political Science

• Includes the most essential readings by prominent realist and liberal thinkers on international conflict.

• Organizes readings into sections on theory, economics, politics, conventional and unconventional warfare, and transnational issues that clarify the many perspectives and issues on international conflict.

• Includes section introductions that link the readings and sections into a dialogue and that help students evaluate arguments about international conflict.

• Concludes with a section that debates the future directions of war and peace.

• A new section, “Psychology: Unconscious Sources of Conflict,” includes four readings by leading scholars of the psychology of conflict.

• A new section, “Culture: The Sociology of Norms,” includes five readings by leading constructivists and one new reading on gender and conflict.

• “International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation,” presents two new readings on democratic peace theory.

• “Strategy II: Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare,” includes two new readings on terrorism.

• The text’s conclusion offers three new readings by G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Richard K. Betts and Thomas J. Christensen, and Samuel P. Huntington. 

*selections new to this edition

Part I. Introduction: Three Visions of War and Peace

Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?"

John J. Mearsheimer, "Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War"

Samuel P. Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations?”

Part II. International Realism: Anarchy and Power

Thucydides, "The Melian Dialogue"

Niccolo Machiavelli, "Doing Evil in Order to Do Good"

Thomas Hobbes, "The State of Nature"

Edward Hallett Carr, "Realism and Idealism"

Kenneth N. Waltz, "The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory"

Robert Gilpin, "Hegemonic War and International Change"

Geoffrey Blainey, "Power, Culprits, and Arms"

Part III. International Liberalism: Institutions and Cooperation

Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace"

*Richard Cobden, "Peace Through Arbitration"

*Woodrow Wilson, "Community of Power vs. Balance of Power"

Michael W. Doyle, "Liberalism and World Politics"

Hedley Bull, "Society and Anarchy in International Relations"

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, "Power and Interdependence"

Part IV. Psychology: Unconscious Sources of Conflict

Sigmund Freud, "Why War?"

Franco Fornari, "The Psychoanalysis of War"

*Stanley Milgram, "How Good People Do Bad Things"

*Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon, "Why Hawks Win"

Part V. Culture: The Sociology of Norms

Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Make of It"

Margaret Mead, "War is Only an Invention, Not a Biological Necessity"

John Mueller, "The Obsolescence of Major War"

Martha Finnemore, "Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention"

*J. Ann Tickner, "Men, Women, and War"

Part VI. Economics: Interests and Interdependence

Niccolo Machiavelli, "Money is Not the Sinews of War..."

Norman Angell, "The Great Illusion"

Geoffrey Blainey, "Paradise is a Bazaar"

V.I. Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"

Joseph Schumpeter, "Imperialism and Capitalism"

Alan S. Milward, "War as Policy"

Kenneth N. Waltz, "Structural Causes and Economic Effects"

Richard Rosecrance, "Trade and Power"

Part VII. Politics: Ideology and Identity

Ernest Gellner, "Nations and Nationalism"

Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder, "Democratization and War"

Chaim Kaufmann, "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars"

Radha Kumar, "The Troubled History of Partition"

Part VIII. Strategy, I: Military Technology, Doctrine, and Stability

Samuel P. Huntington, "Arms Races: Prerequisites and Results"

Robert Jervis, "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma"

Jack S. Levy, "The Offensive/Defensive Balance of Military Technology"

Charles Fairbanks and Abram Shulsky, "Arms Control: Historical Experience"

Kenneth N. Waltz, "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better"

Part IX. Strategy, II: Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare

T. E. Lawrence, “Science of Guerrilla Warfare”

Mao Tse-tung, “On Guerrilla Warfare”

Samuel P. Huntington, “Patterns of Violence in World Politics”

Martha Crenshaw, “The Logic of Terrorism”

Mark Juergensmeyer, “Religious Radicalism and Political Violence”

*Osama bin Ladin, "Speech to the American People"

*Mark Sageman, "Jihadi Networks of Terror"

Richard K. Betts, “The Soft Underbelly of Primacy”

Part X. Transnational Tensions: Migration, Resources, Environment

Myron Weiner, "Security, Stability, and Migration"

John K. Cooley, "The War Over Water"

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, "Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict"

Part XI. Conclusion: Strategies for Peace

*G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter, "A World of Liberty Under Law"

*Richard K. Betts and Thomas J. Christensen, "China: Can the Next Superpower Rise Without War?"

*Samuel P. Huntington, "Peace Among Civilizations?"

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Richard K. Betts is the Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science, the director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, and the director of the International Security Policy Program in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies on the Council of Foreign Relations, acommissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism, and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. His research interests include national security, military strategy, and international conflict, and he has published numerous articles on foreign policy, military strategy, intelligence operations, conventional forces, nuclear weapons, arms trade, collective security, strategic issues in Asia, and other subjects.

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