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War and Peace in an Age of Terrorism: A Reader
William M. Evan, The University of Pennsylvania

ISBN-10: 0205428487
ISBN-13: 9780205428489

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 432 pp
Published: 02/10/2005

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This anthology, with contributions from many academic disciplines, is designed to help readers analyze the causes and consequences of war, and to find new ways of resolving conflicts and preventing wars.

  • The fifty-eight reading selections bring together perspectives from across academic disciplines and a wide range of human endeavor, such as: sociology, anthropology, history, psychology, biology, theology, philosophy, and political science.
  • Examines a number of provocative and enduring questions: Is war a universal and inevitable attribute of human societies? Can war be prevented or eliminated?
  • The author is a leading scholar in this field who has been teaching a course on the causes of war and possibilities for peace for more than thirty years.
  • Part II explores the rise of terrorism by non-state actors over the last four decades, and the contemporary “War on Terrorism.”
  • Each reading is followed by a set of Questions for Discussion and a bibliography of Further Readings.
  • Three appendices enumerate civil and international wars from 1945-1995, military expenditures and arms imports and exports by country, and Nobel prize winners since 1901.

I. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW.

Reading 1: The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.

Reading 2: The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Reading 3: The Art of War and Military Thoughts by Martin Van Creveld.

II. THE WAR ON TERRORISM.

Reading 4: “America’s New War on Terror: The Case for Self-Defense under International Law” by Jack M. Beard.

Reading 5: “The New Cold War” by J.J. Goldberg.

Reading 6: “The Many Threats of Terror” by Richard L. Garwin.

Reading 7: “Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11” by Bruce Hoffman.

Reading 8: “Weapons of Mass Salvation” by Jefferey Sachs.

Reading 9: “A Systemic Analysis of International Terrorism” by Fritjof Capra.

III. RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR THEORIES OF JUST AND UNJUST WAR.

Reading 10: “Ethics and War: A Catholic View.” By Joseph C. McKenna.

Reading 11: “The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends” by Thomas D. Paxson, Jr.

Reading 12: “The 1660 Declaration of Friends to Charles II” by George Fox and Others.

Reading 13: “War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition” by Michael Walzer.

Reading 14: “Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Tradition” by Sohail H. Hashmi.

Reading 15: “Himsa and Ahimsa Traditions in Hinduism” by Klaus K. Klostermaier.

Reading 16: “Peace and Non-violence in Buddhism” by Roy C. Amore.

Reading 17: “The Just War” by Michael Walzer.

IV. THEORIES OF THE CAUSES OF WAR.

Biological Theories.

 

Reading 18: “The Biology of Peace and War” by Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.

Reading 19: “The Seville Statement on Violence.”

Reading 20: “The Seville Statement on Violence Revisited” by John Paul Scott and Benson Ginsburg.

 

Economic Theories.

 

Reading 21: “The Economics of War and Peace” by Christopher Mark Davis.

Reading 22: “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy.

Reading 23: “The Arms Bonana” by James Adams.

Reading 24: “The Global Arms Trade” by William M Evan.

 

Technological Theories.

 

Reading 25: “War in the Atomic Age” by Bernard Brodie.

Reading 26: “Technology and War” by Martin Van Crevald.

Reading 27: “World War III Now?” by Geoffrey Forden.

Reading 28: “Chemical Weapons as Means of Attack” by Anthony H Cordesman.

Reading 29: “Biological Weapons as a Means of Attack” by Anthony H Cordesman.

Reading 30: “Technology against Terror” by Rocco Casagrande.

 

Political Theories.

 

Reading 31: “Multipolar Systems and International Stability” by Karl W. Deutsch and J. David Singer.

Reading 32: “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate” by Kenneth Waltz and Scott D. Sagan.

 

Psychological Theories.

 

Reading 33: “The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis” by Neal E. Miller et al.

Reading 34: “Why Men Fight: Psychosocial Determinants” by Jerome D. Frank.

Reading 35: “Nobody Wanted War” by Ralph K. White.

Reading 36: “Know your Enemy: A Psychological Profile of Terrorism” by Colin A. Ross.

Reading 37: “Exchange of Correspondence on War” by Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

 

Sociological/Anthropological Theories.

 

Reading 38: “Warfare is only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity” by Margaret Mead.

Reading 39: “An Anthropological Analysis of War” by Bronislaw Malinowski.

Reading 40: “Why Nations Go To War” by John G. Stoessinger.

V. THEORIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR.

Negotiation Strategies.

 

Reading 41: “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving Up” by Roger Fisher and William Ury.

 

Non violence Strategies.

 

Reading 42: “The Politics of Non-Violent Action” by Gene Sharp.

Reading 43: “The Nonviolent Moment as Peak Experience” by Michael Nagler.

Reading 44: “Toward a Confederation of Israel, Palestine and Jordan” by William M. Evan.

 

International Law.

 

Reading 45: “The Rights of War and Peace” by Hugo Grotius.

Reading 46: “War Crimes” by William M. Evan.

Reading 47: “Legality of the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons” (abstract).

 

International Court of Justice.

 

Reading 48: “Constitution of Japan.”

Reading 49: “Kashmir: Invoking International Law to Avoid Nuclear War” by William M. Evan and Francis A. Boyle.

Minimal Moral Framework.

Reading 50: “A Strategy for Peace” by Sissela Bok.

Reading 51: “A Global Ethic in World Politics” by Hans Kung.

 

Peace Movements.

 

Reading 52: “American Peace Activism” by Charles DeBenedetti.

Reading 53: “The Transnational Movement Against Nuclear Weapons” by Lawrence S. Wittner.

Reading 54: “Antiwar Movement Morphs from Wild-Eyed to Civil” by Kate Zernike and Dean E. Murphy.

 

Democracy, Democratization and Peace.

 

Reading 55: “Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post Cold War World” by Bruce Russett.

Reading 56: “Democratization and War” by Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder.

Reading 57: “Fanatical Terrrorism versus Disciplines of Constitutional Democracy” by Chester A. Newland.

Reading 58: “Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror” by Thomas Carothers.

Appendix I–Civil Wars and International Conflicts 1945-1995.

 

Appendix II–Country Rankings: Military Expenditures, Armed Forces Personnelm, Arms Imports and Exports (1999).

 

Appendix III–Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2003-1901.

“This reader provides a comprehensive coverage of diverse aspects of terrorism and should stimulate much fruitful fresh thinking on problems being generated.”
Walter Isard, Cornell University

“ Terrorism has overwhelmed the current generations capacities to understand and deal with violent conflict and war… Every reader is challenged to explore new ways of dealing with human difference and the conflicts that arise from these differences…This book is a must for students in the field of Conflict and Peace Studies.”
Elise Boulding, Dartmouth College

“The 21st century far from being an age of maturity and peace is proving to be bloody and vicious. Evan’s Reader surveys historical discourses on and different and theoretical explanations for violent behavior and war. His final section, however, does not succumb to popular pessimism but suggests a range of eminently sensible strategies for making the world a more peaceful place. This book should be read by everyone seeking to understand modern violence and how to develop realistic non-violent alternatives.”
Kevin P. Clements, Professor and Director, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

“This book superbly brings together traditional and innovative perspectives about the origins, conduct, and prevention of wars. Issues about contemporary terrorism are usefully placed in the context of wars of all kinds among state and non-state actors.”
Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Founding Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse University

“There is no topic more important for public awareness and discussion…The editor, William M. Evan, has not only provided a collection of readings that offer diversity of perspective and analysis, but he has also identified questions to generate discussion among the readers.”
Vernie Davis, Professor and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Faculty Director of the Conflict Resolution resource Center

“Bringing together a variety of points of views on war and peace in a single volume is commendable, making it an excellent choice for adoption in courses on the subject in universities around the world.”
Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History, Tufts University

“At a time of confusion about how to deal with terrorism and create a peaceful world, this book will stimulate readers to think about new solutions.”
Mildred A Schwartz, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Scholar at New York University

“William Evan has produced a remarkably wide-ranging, thoughtful, and mind-expanding anthology. It extends from readings in socio-biology to theology, and includes today’s key debate, originating with Kant, on the “democratic peace”. Students in dogmatic slumbers will be forced to wake up.”
Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science

In Praise of:William M. Evan's War and Peace in an Age of Terrorism: A Reader

“This reader provides a comprehensive coverage of diverse aspects of terrorism and should stimulate much fruitful fresh thinking on problems being generated.”

Walter Isard
Professor of Economics and Regional Science and Peace Science
Cornell University
“Terrorism has overwhelmed the current generation's capacities to understand and deal with violent conflict and war....Every reader is challenged to explore new ways of dealing with human difference and the conflicts that arise from these differences....This book is a must for students in the field of Conflict and Peace Studies.”
Elise Boulding
Professor Emerita of Sociology
Dartmouth College
“This book superbly brings together traditional and innovative perspectives about the origins, conduct, and prevention of wars. Issues about contemporary terrorism are usefully placed in the context of wars of all kinds among state and non-state actors. ”
Louis Kriesberg
Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies
Founding Director
Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts
Syracuse University
“Bringing together a variety of points of view on war and peace in a single volume is commendable, making it an excellent choice for adoption in courses on the subject in universities around the world. ”
Ayesha Jalal
Professor of History
Tufts University
“At a time of confusion about how to deal with terrorism and create a peaceful world, this book will stimulate readers to think about new solutions. ”
Mildred A Schwartz
Professor Emerita of Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Visiting Scholar at New York University

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