War and Ideas : Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780415781763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

John Mueller

Opis

This title collects the key essays of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions. Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good idea has gained currency.

Spis treści

Preface: Marketing Mousetraps  Part 1: War, Ideas, and Peace  Introduction  1. The Obsolescence of Major War  2. Policing the Remnants of War  3. War Has Almost Ceased to Exist: An Assessment  4. Why Isn't There More Violence?  Part 2: Threat Perception, Ideas, and Foreign Policy  Introduction  5. What Was the Cold War About? Evidence from Its Ending  6. Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration  7. Faulty Correlation, Foolish Consistency, and Fatal Consequence: Democracy, Peace, and Theory in the Middle East  Part 3: Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and War  Introduction  8. American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in a New Era: Eleven Propositions  9. The Iraq War and the Management of American Public Opinion

O autorze

John Mueller is Professor of Political Science and holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Ohio State University. He is author/editor of 13 books on politics and international security.