John Mueller

War and Ideas (eBook, PDF)

Selected Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134725434
• Artikelnr.: 39908417

Autorenporträt

John Mueller is Professor of Political Science and holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, Ohio State University. He is author/editor of 13 books on politics and international security.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Marketing Mousetraps Part 1: War
Ideas
and Peace Introduction 1. The Obsolescence of Major War 2. Policing the Remnants of War 3. War Has Almost Ceased to Exist: An Assessment 4. Why Isn't There More Violence? Part 2: Threat Perception
Ideas
and Foreign Policy Introduction 5. What Was the Cold War About? Evidence from Its Ending 6. Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration 7. Faulty Correlation
Foolish Consistency
and Fatal Consequence: Democracy
Peace
and Theory in the Middle East Part 3: Public Opinion
Foreign Policy
and War Introduction 8. American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in a New Era: Eleven Propositions 9. The Iraq War and the Management of American Public Opinion