War, peace and international security from Sarajevo to Crimea

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Main Author: Eichler, Jan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical inspiration : three key authors
  • From Sarajevo to San Francisco
  • The Cold War
  • From the end of the Cold War to the end of the Global War on Terror
  • From the dissolution of the Soviet Union toward the annexation of Crimea.
  • Dedication ; Acknowledgement; Contents; List of abbreviations ; List of Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1: Theoretical Inspiration: Three Key Authors; 1.1 Johan Galtung: Positive versus Negative Peace and Six Forms of Violence; 1.1.1 Six Dividing Lines; 1.2 Raymond Aron and War and Peace between nations; 1.3 Edward Carr and His Vision of the Twentieth Century; 1.4 Liberalism/Neoliberalism and International Security; 1.4.1 Basic Claims and Assumption; 1.4.2 Four Variants of Liberalism; 1.4.3 Wilsonianism and Anne-Marie Slaughter; 1.5 Realism and International Security
  • 1.5.1 Three Key Motivations1.5.2 Classical Realism; 1.5.3 Structural Realism; 1.5.4 Offensive Versus Defensive Realism; 1.6 War; 1.6.1 A Basic Definition; 1.6.2 The Typology of Wars; 1.6.3 The Role of War in the History of Humankind; 1.6.4 The Theory of Cyclicality of Wars; 1.6.5 Technological Dimensions of Wars; 1.6.6 Theoretical Concepts of War; 1.7 Peace; 1.7.1 The Theoretical Explanation of the Concept of Peace; 1.7.1.1 The Realist Perspective on Peace; 1.7.1.2 Classical Realism; 1.7.1.3 Neorealism; 1.7.1.4 Liberalism and its Conception of Peace; Bibliography
  • Chapter 2: From Sarajevo to San Francisco2.1 World War I As The First Total War; 2.1.1 The Main Causes of World War I; 2.1.2 The Entente Powers and Their Status Before World War I; 2.1.2.1 Military Planes of the Triple Entente; 2.1.3 The USA as a Waiting Tiger; 2.1.4 The Beginning of the Twentieth Century From the Viewpoint of Two Key Authors; 2.1.5 World War I; 2.1.5.1 The Most Significant Battles of World War I; 2.1.5.2 Verdun and the Somme as the Symbols of the Great War's Absurdity; 2.1.5.3 The Decisive Importance of 1917; 2.1.5.4 The Brest-Litovsk Peace
  • 2.1.5.5 The End of the US Policy of Neutrality, and the US Declaration of War2.1.6 The Historical Importance of World War I; 2.2 From Washington to Paris. Positive Peace Between the 14 Points and the Briand-Kellogg Pact; 2.2.1 The Basic Framework of the Post-war International Order; 2.2.2 Wilson's 14 Points and Their Positive Approach to Peace; 2.2.3 Elements of Negative Peace in the Interwar Period; 2.2.4 Basic Features of the Post-war International Order; 2.2.5 The League of Nations as an Instrument of Positive Peace
  • A 2.2.6 From the Demilitarization of the German Problem to the Interdiction of War2.2.6.1 The Spirit of Locarno; 2.2.6.2 The Briand-Kellogg Pact as the Centerpiece of the Interwar Positive Peace; 2.2.7 The Second Interwar Decade Marked by the Nature of the Negative Concept of Peace; 2.2.7.1 German Revisionism in the 30s as the Destruction of Positive Peace; 2.2.7.2 Hitler's War?; 2.2.7.3 The Appeasement Policy and its Disastrous Consequences; 2.2.7.4 Chamberlain's Concessions; 2.2.7.5 Munich-A Quadrilateral Agreement