War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

had their origins, though not always their profoundest roots, in the interwar periods from which they emerged. Efforts to establ ...

the partial control of the possibility of war but also about the use of war as an instrument to discipline rogue behaviour. Sinc ...

Congress/Concert System was that it could, and did, tolerate warfare that served to adjust relations among the great powers. An ...

enemy must be punished. In those circumstances, the wonder is not that the Versailles Settlement and the succeeding treaties wit ...

As for the principle of collective security, it falls at the first fence of strategic historical reality. The idea requires that ...

distributed geopolitically in the worst possible way for the security of Britain and its empire. Germany in Northern Europe, Ita ...

and providing assistance to refugees. But as the prime institution for the management of international order, the UN was stillbo ...

The end of the Cold War and new world disorders When the Soviet Union and its empire collapsed, more or less peaceably, between ...

One has to be somewhat sympathetic to the American policy-makers of the 1990s. They ruled the only superpower in an interwar per ...

The final judgement in this discussion is provided by the historian Donald Kagan. He comments, advises even, that ‘What seems to ...

the absence of vital interests in contention. But if one wishes to promote a world order which, like an oil stain, spreads over ...

to tribes that sought to share in, or seize, the good life is a story with a message for all periods, including our own (Heather ...

Questions Can the human race make progress towards a more peaceful world? Has it done so since 1800? What are the requirements ...

T. L. Knutsen The Rise and Fall of World Orders(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999). A. Williams Failed Imagination? ...

20 Conclusion Must future strategic history resemble the past? Because this is a strategic history, its dominant narrative compr ...

If history is a guide, some security communities will always have interests that they believe must be protected by force. In th ...

Glossary ABCD coalition:Coalition formed and led by America in 1940–1 to oppose further Japanese aggression in East Asia (Americ ...

Grand strategy:The purposeful employment of all the instruments of power available to a security community. Great Depression:Col ...

Revolution in military affairs (RMA):A radical change in the character of warfare. SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks):Soviet ...

Bibliography Agawa, H. (19 8 2) The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy, New York: Kodansha International/USA. Alg ...