From War to Peace: Fateful Decisions in International Politics

From War to Peace, formerly titled How Nations Make Peace, has been renamed to indicate the breadth of its content. Using case studies to illustrate the peace-making process, Charles Kegley and Gregory Raymond study the effects of peace agreements on societies from the ancient Greeks' to our own and examine two questions that profoundly affect foreign policy: Why do states go to war? And how can they create a lasting peace? Specifically, they explore what types of peace agreements are most likely to avert future conflict, introducing the theories, concepts and ethical perspectives available to evaluate peace-making strategies. Maps and chronologies supplement each case to summarize key events, people and circumstances and to give the reader a complete historical perspective from which to assess the prospects for peace in the 21st century. There are two new case studies examined-the Thirty Years War and its historical foundation for modern statecraft and the war in Kosovo which provides a basis for exploring war and peace in today's post-Cold War era.