Conflict after the Cold War : arguments on causes of war and peace / edited by Richard K. Betts.

Includes bibliographical references.

The end of history? / Francis Fukuyama -- Why we will soon miss the Cold War / John J. Mearsheimer -- The Melian dialogue / Thucydides -- Doing evil in order to do good / Niccolò Machiavelli -- The state of nature and the state of war / Thomas Hobbes -- Realism and idealism / Edward Hallett Carr -- The origins of war in neorealist theory / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Hegemonic war and international change / Robert Gilpin -- Power, culprits, and arms / Geoffrey Blainey -- Perpetual peace / Immanuel Kant -- Society and anarchy in international relations / Hedley Bull -- Power and interdependence / Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye -- The obsolescence of major war / John Mueller -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- Why war? / Sigmund Freud -- The psychoanalysis of war / Franco Fornari -- Warfare is only an invention, not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead -- Anarchy is what states make of it / Alexander Wendt -- Constructing norms of humanitarian intervention / Martha Finnemore -- The clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington -- Money is not the sinews of war, although it is generally so considered / Niccolò Machiavelli -- The great illusion / Norman Angell -- Paradise is a bazaar / Geoffrey Blainey -- Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism / V.I. Lenin -- Imperialism and capitalism / Joseph Schumpeter -- War as policy / Alan S. Milward -- Structural causes and economic effects / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Trade and power / Richard Rosecrance -- Idealpolitik / Stanley Kober -- Liberalism and world politics / Michael W. Doyle -- Nations and nationalism / Ernest Gellner -- Democratization and war / Edward D. Mansfield, Jack Snyder -- Possible and impossible solutions to ethnic civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann -- The troubled history of partition / Radha Kumar -- Arms races : prerequisites and results / Samuel P. Huntington -- Cooperation under the security dilemma / Robert Jervis -- 1914 revisited / Scott D. Sagan -- The offensive/defensive balance of military technology / Jack S. Levy -- Arms control : the historical experience / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., Abram N. Shulsky -- The spread of nuclear weapons : more may be better / Kenneth N. Waltz -- Security, stability, and migration / Myron Weiner -- The war over water / John K. Cooley -- Environmental changes as causes of acute conflict / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon -- A revolution in warfare / Eliot A. Cohen -- The risks of a networked military / Richard J. Harknett, The JCISS Study Group -- The delusion of impartial intervention / Richard K. Betts -- Power, interdependence, and the information age / Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye -- Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin R. Barber.