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  • Formaat: Hardback, 390 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 890 g, 4 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2011
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415594855
  • ISBN-13: 9780415594851
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 390 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 890 g, 4 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415594855
  • ISBN-13: 9780415594851
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War, Peace and International Relations provides an introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war. The book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars.

Written by leading strategist Professor Colin Gray, the book provides students with a good grounding in the contribution of war to the development of the modern world, from the pre-industrial era to the age of international terrorism and smart weapons.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated:

  • It is the first one-volume strategic history textbook on the market;
  • It covers all the major wars of the past two centuries;
  • It is up to date and comprehensive, including a new section on the American Civil War, a new chapter on geography and strategy, and completely rewritten chapters on Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s and on irregular warfare.

This textbook will be essential reading for students of strategic studies, security studies, war studies, international relations and international history.

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'The authors discussions and clarity of thought and expression make this work ideal as a textbook for introducing civilian students and prospective military officers of the various military academies to the subject.' -Parameters 'The authors discussions and clarity of thought and expression make this work ideal as a textbook for introducing civilian students and prospective military officers of the various military academies to the subject.' - Parameters

List of illustrations
xi
Preface to the second edition xv
Introduction: strategic history 1(4)
1 Themes and contexts of strategic history
5(12)
Introduction: a binding framework
5(1)
Themes
6(5)
Contexts
11(3)
Conclusion
14(3)
2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war
17(17)
Introduction: theory for all seasons
17(1)
Strategic ideas and strategic behaviour
18(3)
Jomini and Clausewitz
21(8)
Conclusion
29(5)
3 From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war
34(21)
Introduction: two transformations
34(2)
Limited war and great war
36(4)
The Revolution and its warfare
40(2)
Napoleon's art of war
42(6)
Problems with the Napoleonic way of war and warfare
48(2)
Political and strategic failure
50(1)
Conclusion
51(4)
4 The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view
55(20)
Introduction: the reach of strategic history
55(1)
A violent century
56(1)
America's great civil war
57(8)
Implications of the Industrial Revolution: the strategic tale
65(8)
Conclusion
73(2)
5 The nineteenth century, II: Technology, warfare and international order
75(15)
Introduction: Waterloo to the Marne
75(2)
Weapons and warfare
77(7)
Politics and strategic history
84(3)
Conclusion
87(3)
6 World War I, I: controversies
90(10)
Introduction: the making of the twentieth century
90(2)
A contested history
92(6)
Conclusion
98(2)
7 World War I, II: modern warfare
100(13)
Introduction: education by experience
100(1)
The course of the war
101(5)
Modern warfare
106(4)
Conclusion
110(3)
8 The twenty-year armistice, 1919-39
113(17)
Introduction: contrasting decades
113(2)
Versailles and the legacy of the Great War
115(6)
The changing political context: strategic implications
121(6)
Conclusion
127(3)
9 The mechanization of war
130(11)
Introduction: revolution in military affairs (RMA)
130(1)
Land warfare
131(2)
Air power
133(3)
Sea power
136(2)
Conclusion
138(3)
10 World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war
141(24)
Introduction: total war
141(2)
The structure of the war
143(4)
The course of the war
147(14)
Conclusion
161(4)
11 World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war
165(14)
Introduction: what was the war about?
165(1)
Hitler's war
166(2)
Warfare, 1939-45
168(3)
Why did Germany lose?
171(5)
Conclusion
176(3)
12 World War II in Asia-Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire
179(12)
Introduction: global war
179(3)
The Japanese bid for empire
182(3)
Japan and the United States: the drift to war
185(3)
Conclusion
188(3)
13 World War II in Asia-Pacific, II: strategy and warfare
191(18)
Introduction: over the cliff
191(1)
Japanese strategy
192(4)
American strategy
196(7)
The end for Japan
203(2)
Conclusion
205(4)
14 The Cold War, I: politics and ideology
209(22)
Introduction: from war to peace - the consequences of World War II
209(4)
From cold peace to Cold War
213(5)
The Cold War reconsidered
218(8)
Some interim judgements
226(2)
Conclusion
228(3)
15 The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution
231(14)
Introduction: the strategic challenge
231(1)
The bomb
232(3)
The nuclear revolution
235(2)
Nuclear strategy
237(5)
The nuclear arms competition
242(1)
Conclusion
243(2)
16 War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade
245(17)
Introduction: the interwar thesis
245(3)
A unipolar world
248(3)
`New wars' and `Old Wars': A Bloody Decade
251(8)
Conclusion
259(3)
17 9/11 and the age of terror
262(17)
Introduction: return of a master narrative and the problem with (lack of) perspective
262(1)
9/11: World War III?
263(6)
Imbroglios: Iraq and Afghanistan
269(5)
Conclusion
274(5)
18 War and irregular warfare: guerrillas, insurgents and terrorists
279(28)
Introduction: modes of warfare
279(1)
Modern war: from the Industrial Age to the Information Age
280(5)
Guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism
285(10)
Irregular warfare: an overview
295(3)
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
298(3)
Al Qaeda and the `New Terrorism'
301(2)
Conclusion
303(4)
19 Geography and strategic history
307(22)
Introduction: geography as context
307(3)
Five geographies of war
310(1)
Geography, technology and tactics
311(6)
Location and resources
317(4)
Geopolitics and geostrategy
321(5)
Conclusion
326(3)
20 War, peace and international order
329(16)
Introduction: war-peace cycle
329(2)
New world orders
331(5)
The Cold War order and the United Nations
336(3)
9/11 and a would-be hegemonic order
339(2)
Conclusion
341(4)
21 Conclusion: the twenty-first century - must future strategic history resemble the past?
345(3)
Glossary 348(3)
Bibliography 351(14)
Index 365
Colin S. Gray is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. He has published twenty-five books and innumerable journal articles.