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This major Handbook brings together the worlds leading scholars of international relations to provide a state of the art review and indispensable guide to the field. A genuinely international undertaking, the Handbook reviews the many historical, philosophical, analytical and normative roots to the discipline and the key contemporary topics of research and debate today. An essential benchmark publication for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics in politics and international relations.
War and Peace
War and Peace
Ever since Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War over 2,400 years ago (Strassler, 1996), scholars from a wide range of disciplines have studied war in the hope of facilitating efforts to prevent its occurrence, reduce its frequency, or mitigate its consequences. Political science is absolutely central to this task. Clausewitz's ([1832] 1976) influential conceptualization of war as a ‘continuation of politics by other means’, an instrument to advance political interests, suggests that war is intrinsically political, so that if we want to understand war we must understand why decision-makers choose military force rather than other means to achieve their desired ends.
The study of war in political science varies enormously in theoretical orientation, methodological approach, ontological assumptions and empirical domain, and ...
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