THE WANING OF MAJOR WAR
The Waning of Major War is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and to explore whether it is waxing or waning. Although the main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline, this does not mean that wars between states are, in general, disappearing. While there is some convergence in the conclusions reached by individual authors in this volume, they are by no means unanimous about the trend. The essays presented here explore different causes and correlates of the declining trend in major-power warfare, including the impact of the international structure, nuclear weapons, international law, multilateral institutions, sovereignty and value changes.
This book will be of considerable interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in international relations, security studies and war studies.
Raimo Vyrynen is President of the Academy of Finland. He has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, and at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has also been Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. He is author or editor of six books on international relations and conflict.
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Raimo Vyrynen (ed.), The Waning of Major War: Theories and Debates
THE WANING OF MAJOR WAR
Theories and Debates
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Raimo Vyrynen
First published 2006
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Martin van Creveld is one of the leading experts on military history and strategy, world-wide. Professor van Creveld has been a faculty member at the History Department, the Hebrew University, since 1971. He has authored seventeen books, the most important of which are Supplying War (1978), Command in War (1985), The Transformation of War (1991), and The Rise and Decline of the State (1999).
Marie T. Henehan, Ph.D. Rutgers University, is Research Associate and Senior Lecturer at Colgate University. She is the author of Foreign Policy and Congress: An International Relations Perspective, published by the University of Michigan Press, and co-editor of The Scientific Study of Peace and War: A Text-Reader, published by Lexington Books. She also does research on gender and international relations and her research has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research and in various book chapters.
Kalevi J. Holsti is University Killam Professor of Political Science (emeritus) and Research Associate at the Centre for International Relations at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has been editor of the International Studies Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. Holsti is the author of eight books, and many chapters in edited volumes and articles in leading journals of International Relations and Political Science. His most recent book, Taming the Sovereigns: Institutional Change in International Politics, was published in 2004.
Patrick M. Morgan is Professor of Political Science and holder of the Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is a specialist in national and international security affairs with particular interests in deterrence and arms control, East Asian security affairs (particularly USKorean relations) and USEuropean relations. His latest book, Deterrence Now, was published in 2003.
John Mueller is Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University where he teaches courses in international relations. His most recent books are Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralphs Pretty Good Grocery (1999) and The Remnants of War (2004). He is currently working on terrorism and particularly on the reactions (or over-reactions) it often inspires.
T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1991. He specializes and teaches courses in international relations, especially international security, international conflict and conflict resolution, regional security and South Asia. Paul is the author or co-author of many books, articles and chapters, including Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (1994), The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order (1998/2000), International Order and the Future of World Politics (19992003), Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (2000), India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status (2002), The Nation-State in Question (2003), Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century (co-editor, 2004), and The IndiaPakistan Dispute: An Enduring Conflict (editor, forthcoming).
Paul W. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He is the author or co-editor of six books and many articles primarily on the history and theory of European international relations, including The Transformation of European Politics, 17631848 (1994/1996) and Systems, Stability and Statecraft: Essays in the International History of Modern Europe, edited by David Wetzel, Robert Jervis and Jack S. Levy (2004).
Hendrik Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University. He is the author of
