| Preface and Acknowledgements
‘A cross-roads rather than an academic discipline’ – Philip
Windsor and the Study of International Relations
Mats Berdal
Part I International Relations in a
Philosophical Context
1 International Relations – The State of the Art
2 The Justification of the State
3 The Twentieth Century as Self-Conscious History
4 War and the State
5 Cultural Dialogue in Human Rights
Part II Strategic Thinking
6 NATO’s Twenty-five Years
7 The Boundaries of Détente
8 Restoring the Dynamics of Arms Control
9 Towards a Hierarchy for Arms Control
10 The Enigma of a Gifted Soul: Aron on Clausewitz
11 The Clock, the Context and Clausewitz
12 Strategic Thinking after the Cold War
Part III Aspects of Order
13 The Politics of Impotence
14 Some Reflections on Grenada
15 The Saviour from the Sea
16 America’s Moral Confusion: Separating the Should from the
Good
17 Terrorism and International Order
18 Superpower Intervention
19 Women and International Relations: What’s the Problem?
20 Henry Kissinger’s Scholarly Contribution
List of Original Texts
Index
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“These essays offer a classic
introduction to our era... Whether he is discussing the vexed question
of human rights... or the challenge that terrorism poses to the
international order, we can learn much from his wisdom. These
essays command our attention not only as an expression of the author’s
enduring insights, but as a preview of our own century.” Survival
“Studies in International Relations will remind those who were so privileged of his penetrating insight into the nature of international relations and of the humans who make them and write about them.” Professor Margot Light, London School of Economics
“Many of these essays made a lasting impression on those who read them when they first appeared. Mats Berdal is to be congratulated on introducing them to a new generation of readers.” Professor James Mayall, Cambridge University |
