War, peace and international relations - Colin S. Gray

This newvolume explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context.

Infifteen clear and concisechapters, this book hits the high and low points of internationalpolitics over atwo hundredyear period, plus a brief foray into the future out to 2025.War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellentintroduction to the international history of the past two centuries, showing how those two centuries were shaped and reshaped extensively by war.This book takes a broad view of what was relevant to the causes, courses, and consequences of wars.

Thisupper-level textbookis aninvaluable resource for students of strategic studies, security studies, international relations and international history.