The use of force : military power and international politics
The sixth edition of this classic text adds 13 new selections that highlight emerging issues including terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. New case studies from Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Asia are also used to illustrate the general principles behind the use of force
Print Book, English, ©2004
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., ©2004
xi, 483 pages ; 24 cm
9780742525566, 9780742525573, 0742525562, 0742525570
52039593
The fungibility of force / Robert J. Art
The sources of military doctrine / Barry R. Posen
Offense, Defense, and the causes of war / Stephen Van Evera
Coercive diplomacy / Alexander L. George
International terrorism / 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
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 Cuban Missile Crisis / David A. Welch, James G. Blight and Bruce J. Allyn
Implementing flexible response : Vietnam as a test case / John Lewis Gaddis
Coercive diplomacy in the Balkans / Steven L. Burg
The Afghani war : a flawed masterpiece / Michael E. O'Hanlon
From preponderance to offshore balancing / Christopher Layne
The strategy of selective engagement / Robert J. Art
America's imperial ambition / G. John Ikenberry
Missile defence and American ambitions / Victor A. Utgoff
Missile defenses and the multiplication of nuclear weapons / Kenneth N. Waltz
What if Iraq had had nuclear weapons? / Barry R. Posen
Nuclear instability in South Asia / Scott D. Sagan
Nuclear stability in South Asia / Kenneth N. Waltz
Intervention in ethnic and ideological civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann
Military responses to refugee disasters / Barry R. Posen
The critical barrier to civil war settlement / Barbara F. Walter
The changing face of terror / Walter Laqueur
Lessons from fighting terrorism in Southern Asia / Brahma Chellaney
America's Achilles' heel : nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism and covert attack / Richard A. Falkenrath, Robert D. Newman and Bradley A. Thayer
Dealing with terrorists / Paul R. Pillar