This collection explores various responses to the question - how did the great confrontation between East and West end? Both Russian and American foreign policy analysts present their views and prognosis for the future. An important focus of the book is how the two countries learned to co-operate. This book examines past US-Soviet learning experiences, and discusses possible future scenarios between the United States and Russia. Lessons for peace are assessed by way of a summary and by integrating various contributors to this reader.

From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the Post-Cold War Era

History

Vasquez, John A.

Midlarsky, Manus I.

Gladkov, Peter V.

Russia

Longman

This book explores all aspects of an important scholarly debate that has widespread implications for the political world, including the making of foreign policy--i.e., a debate over whether the contemporary theory of the balance of power as presented by Kenneth Waltz is a scientifically acceptable theory. It allows readers to examine and analyze the different views (in their original form) by all those in the debate and to come to their own conclusions. An Introduction gives an overview of the debate, defines and clarifies in simple language some of the major concepts used in philosophy of science, sets the historical context of the debate, and explains why it is important for both international relations theory and foreign policy making. An editorial commentary for each article highlights areas of agreement and disagreement with the other authors. First presents the original articles in the initial debate with responses from several of the leading international relations theorists in the field--Kenneth Waltz, Thomas Christensen, Jack Snyder, Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman, Randall Schweller, and Stephen Walt. Then features response from scholars who take differing methodological approaches and who have disparate views on realism and balancing of power (e.g., Jack S. Levy, Paul W. Schroeder, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Zeev Maoz, Richard Rosecrance, Charles L. Glaser, William C. Wohlforth, Michael Barnett). For anyone interested in the philosophical underpinnings of international relations.

Realism and the Balancing of Power: A New Debate

Politics & Social Sciences

Elman, Colin

Politics & Government

Pearson

Book gives a good overview of international relations through classic interactions between entities that help to teach or give an understanding of the subject in a non traditional teaching fashion.

Classics of International Relations

PRENTICE/HALL

Innovative in its mixture of classic and contemporary readings by our greatest thinkers and scholars, this highly reputable and popular book provides one of the best single analyses and introductions to the most enduring questions of international relations. Now updated with many selections from the 1990s, the collection examines: 1) the relationship between morality and politics; 2) whether international relatio ns can be a science; 3) the nature of foreign policy and global conflict; and 4) how to create lasting peace, with a special focus on how to build and maintain peace in the post-cold war era. Links the thought of the past with the r esearch of the present, including choice work from Western civilization and the best articles of the discipline published in the last 60 years. Contains classic readings from the 1980s and 1990s reflecting the major intellectual currents having a profound effect on the field, with new articles on conflict resolution, the new world order, feminist approaches, t he third debate and post-modernism, and democracy and peace. For professionals in t he international relations field; recommended for Fulbright teachers and USIS cultural centers and libraries.

Classics of International Relations (3rd Edition)

In Search of Theory

This book covers the topic of a new paradigm for global politics.

Mansbach, Richard W.

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Territory, War, and Peace (Contemporary Security Studies)

This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war. The book argues that a key both to peace and to war lies in understanding the role territory plays as a source of conflict and inter-group violence. Of all the issues that spark conflict, territorial disputes have the highest probability of escalating to war. War, however, is hardly inevitable; much depends on how territorial issues are handled. More importantly, settling territorial disputes and establishing mutually recognized boundaries can produce long periods of peace between neighbors, even if other salient issues arise. While territory is not the only cause of war and wars arise from other issues, territory is one of the main causes of war, and learning how to manage it, can, in principle, eliminate an entire class of wars. This book will be of great interest to all students of war and conflict studies, causes of war and peace, international security and strategic studies. John A. Vasquez is Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of The Steps to War (2008) (with Paul Senese) and The War Puzzle Revisited (2009). He has been president of the Peace Science Society (International) and the International Studies Association. Marie T. Henehan is Director of Internships and Lecturer, Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Foreign Policy and Congress: An International Relations Perspective and co-editor of The Scientific Study of Peace and War.

Henehan, Marie T.

Military

Routledge

This book presents a collection of new and updated essays on what has come to be known as the territorial explanation of war. The book argues that a key both to peace and to war lies in understanding the role territory plays as a source of conflict and inter-group violence. Of all the issues that spark conflict, territorial disputes have the highest probability of escalating to war. War, however, is hardly inevitable; much depends on how territorial issues are handled. More importantly, settling territorial disputes and establishing mutually recognized boundaries can produce long periods of peace between neighbors, even if other salient issues arise. While territory is not the only cause of war and wars arise from other issues, territory is one of the main causes of war, and learning how to manage it, can, in principle, eliminate an entire class of wars. This book will be of great interest to all students of war and conflict studies, causes of war and peace, international security and strategic studies. John A. Vasquez is Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of The Steps to War (2008) (with Paul Senese) and The War Puzzle Revisited (2009). He has been president of the Peace Science Society (International) and the International Studies Association. Marie T. Henehan is Director of Internships and Lecturer, Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Foreign Policy and Congress: An International Relations Perspective and co-editor of The Scientific Study of Peace and War.

Reference

The War Puzzle (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Cambridge University Press

This book constructs a new scientific explanation of the causes of war. The author describes systematically those factors common to wars between equal states to see if there is a pattern that suggests why war occurs and delineates the typical path by which relatively equal states have become embroiled in wars with one another in the modern global system. The book differs from others in that it employs the large number of empirical findings generated in the past twenty-five years to solve the puzzle of war and peace.

The War Puzzle (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 27)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the Post-Cold War Era

Realism and the Balancing of Power: A New Debate

Classics of International Relations

Classics of International Relations (3rd Edition)

In Search of Theory

Territory, War, and Peace (Contemporary Security Studies)

Territory, War, and Peace (Contemporary Security Studies)

The War Puzzle (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

The War Puzzle (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 27)

The War Puzzle (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 27)