Theories of War and Peace

by Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Owen R. Coté Jr.

New approaches to understanding war and peace in the changing international system.

What causes war? How can wars be prevented? Scholars and policymakers have sought the answers to these questions for centuries. Although wars continue to occur, recent scholarship has made progress toward developing more sophisticated and perhaps more useful theories on the causes and prevention of war. This volume includes essays by leading scholars on contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262522527
• ISBN13: 9780262522526
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

All You Need to Know about International Relations?

"Theories of War and Peace" edited by Brown, et. al. gives the reader of International Relations a "one stop shop" of various theories of International Relations. The list of contributors to this volume is impressive and the editors arrange the essays in such a way as to naturally follow and even (at times) rebut that which came before.