Product Description: In early modern times, warfare in Europe took on many diverse and overlapping forms. Our modern notions of ‘regular’ and ‘irregular’ warfare, of ‘major war’ and ‘small war’, have their roots in much greater diversity than such binary notions allow for...read more

This book explores a new way for students of International Relations to look at war, peace and world orders throughout European history. The contributors argue that the predominant 'realist' paradigm that focuses on states and their self-interest is not applicable to the largest period of European history, because states either did not exist or were only in the making. Instead, they argue, we have to look through the eyes of historical entities to see how they understood the world in which they lived, The authors use a wide range of case-studies, focusing on subjects as diverse as the ancient Greek concept of honour and persecution under Communist regimes during the Cold War to explore the ways in which people in different societies at different times perceived and felt about war and peace in the world around them.

A comprehensive study of Clausewitz's 'On War', first published in 1832 and regarded as a classic study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Heuser shows how to read Clausewitz as well as how others have read him - from the military commanders of World War I to strategists in the nuclear age.

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Product Description: This book shows that political culture, values and beliefs taking the form of belief-systems or logically less coherent belief-clusters that have grown over many years, are central to understanding nuclear strategy preferences, and that it is often pointless to surmise another country's 'national interest' without a deep understanding of these factors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Europe is a continent weighed down by the shadows of its past, its wars, the traditional enmities, the suspicions of neighbours fuelled by historical memories. This has immediate consequences for the understanding and representation of the past: journalists, politicians, historians often apply simplistic, pre-conceived patterns, i...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume reappraises the transatlantic relationship in the light of its origins, history and past record, and also in the light of new developments since the demise of the East-West antagonism. What common security interests remain, and what possibilities for joint action are there? Does the will exist to use common instruments (particularly NATO) effectively? Or are the continents drifting apart as the number of immigrants to North America from the Pacific area rises, and the number of first-generation Americans of European extraction virtually disappear? Does competition for markets once again hold the potential for antagonism? The volume focuses in particular on recent concrete proposals aiming at translating potential antagonism into more fruitful co-operation, and on developments in the near future that will crucially affect transatlantic relations...read more

Product Description: This book argues that the immediate analysis in the West of the Tito-Stalin split was misguided and that to consider the split as a 'defection' on the part of Yugoslavia is in itself misleading. This book should be of interest to students of history and politics.