States, Nations, and the Great Powers

The Sources of Regional War and Peace

AvBenjamin Miller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Why are some regions prone to war while others remain at peace? What conditions cause regions to move from peace to war and vice versa? This book offers a novel theoretical explanation for the differences and transitions between war and peace. The author distinguishes between 'hot' and 'cold' outcomes, depending on intensity of the war or the peace, and then uses three key concepts (state, nation, and the international system) to argue that it is the specific balance between states and nations in different regions that determines the hot or warm outcomes: the lower the balance, the higher the war proneness of the region, while the higher the balance, the warmer the peace. The theory of regional war and peace developed in this book is examined through case-studies of the post-1945 Middle East, the Balkans and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and post-1945 Western Europe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-08-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt:870 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Antal sidor:526
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521871228

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Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Benjamin Miller is a Professor in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (1995).

Recensioner i media

'Benjamin Miller's States, Nations and the Great Powers is a superb book. It advances the important thesis that to understand the prospects for peace or war in a given region, we need to examine the interaction between the political conditions that obtain within the region and the actions of great powers from outside the region. Miller's book is masterful in its integration of international relations theory and the comparative method. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from undergraduates and graduate students to scholars, and from policy-makers to journalists to citizens, indeed to anyone who is interested in peace and security in the modern era.' Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Why some regions are peaceful and others are not; 2. A theory of regional war and peace; 3. States, nations and war; 4. Explaining the war-proneness of the Middle East in a comparative perspective; 5. The great powers and war and peace in the Middle East; 6. War and peace in the Balkans: states, nations and great powers; 7. The state-to-nation balance and the emergence of peace in South America during the twentieth century; 8. The emergence of high-level peace in post-1945 Western Europe: Nationalism, democracy, hegemony and regional integration; 9. Conclusions.