War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War

A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War

AvDavid R. McCann,Barry S. Strauss

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. It demonstrates the many underlying similarities between the two wars.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-12-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:388
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780765606945

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Part 1 Democracy: Bellicose, Imperial, or Idealistic?; Chapter 1 Democratic Warfare, Ancient and Modern, Victor D. Hanson; Chapter 2 The American Imperium, Ronald Steel; Chapter 3 The American Empire: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Robert Kagan; Part2 Categorizing Wars: Civil or Hegemonic, Decisive or Cyclical?; Chapter 4 When SParta Is SParta but Athens Isn’t Athens: Democracy and the Korean War, Bruce Cumings; Chapter 5 Stalin and the Decision for War in Korea, Kathryn Weathersby; Chapter 6 The Effects of the Peloponnesian (Athenian) War on Athenian and SPartan Societies, Paul Cortledge; Part3 Third Forces, or Shrimps Between Whales; Chapter 7 The Case of Plataea: Small States and the (Re-)Invention of Political Realism, Gregory Crane; Chapter 8 The Korean War and North Korean Politics, Dae-Sook Suh; Chapter 9 The Korean War and South Korean Politics, Kongdon Oh; Part4 Demagogues? or Domestic Politics in Democracies at War; Chapter 10 McCarthyism and the Korean War, EllenSchrecker; Chapter 11 Korea, the Cold War, and American Democracy, Stephen J. Whitfield; Chapter 12 Warfare, Democracy, and the Cult of Personality, Jennifer T. Roberts; Part5 Realism, Militarism, and the Culture of Democracies at War; Chapter 13 Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober; Chapter 14 Father of All, Destroyer of All: War in Late Fifth-Century Athenian Discourse and Ideology, Kurt A. Raaflaub; Chapter 15 Characters and Characteristics of Korean War Novels, Dong-Wook Shin;