Conflict after the Cold War: arguments on causes of war and peace

Pt. I. Introduction : does war have a future?

end of history? / Francis Fukuyama

Why we will soon miss the Cold War / John J. Mearsheimer

clash of civilizations? / Samuel P. Huntington

Pt. II. International realism : anarchy and power

Melian dialogue / Thucydides

Doing evil in order to do good / Niccolo Machiavelli

state of nature and the state of war / Thomas Hobbes

Realism and idealism / Edward Hallett Carr

origins of war in neorealist theory / Kenneth N. Waltz

Hegemonic war and international change / Robert Gilpin

Power, culprits, and arms / Geoffrey Biainey

Pt. III. International liberalism : institutions and cooperation

Perpetual peace / Immanuel Kant

Society and anarchy in international relations / Hedley Bull

Power and interdependence / Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye

obsolescence of major war / John Mueller

Pt. IV. Psychology and culture : unconscious sources of conflict and conscious norms

Why war? / Sigmund Freud

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

PT. V. Economics : interests and interdependence

Money is not the sinews of war, although it is generally so considered / Niccolo Machiavelli

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 / Aian S. Milward

Structural causes and economic effects / Kenneth N. Waltz

Trade and power / Richard Rosecrance

Pt. VI. Politics : ideology and identity

Liberalism and world politics / Michael W. Doyle

Nations and nationalism / Ernest Gellner

Democratization and war / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder

Possible and impossible solutions to ethnic civil wars / Chaim Kaufmann

troubled history of partition / Radha Kumar

Pt. VII. Strategy, I : military technology, doctrine, and stability

Arms races : prerequisites and results / Samuel P. Huntington

Cooperation under the security dilemma / Robert Jervis

1914 Revisited / Scott D. Sagan

offensive/defensive balance of military technology / Jack S. Levy

Arms control : the historical experience / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. and Abram N. Shulsky

spread of nuclear weapons : more may be better / Kenneth N. Waltz

Pt. VIII. Strategy, II : terrorism and unconventional warfare

Science of guerrilla warfare / T. E. Lawrence

On guerrilla warfare / Mao Tse-tung

Patterns of violence in world politics / Samuel P. Huntington

strategic logic of terrorism / Martha Crenshaw

Religious radicalism and political violence / Mark Juergensmeyer

soft underbelly of primacy / Richard K. Betts

Pt. IX. Transnational tensions : migration, resources, and environment

Security, stability, and migration / Myron Weiner

war over water / John K. Cooley

Environmental changes as causes of acute conflict / Thomas F. Homer-Dixon

Pt. X. Conclusion : the future between contending forces

revolution in warfare / Eliot A. Cohen

delusion of impartial intervention / Richard K. Betts

Power, interdependence, and the information age / Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye

Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin R. Barber.