Product Description: This book considers the varied roles played by the United Nations in cases where threats to peace are created by civil strife in modernizing societies. These struggles for internal supremacy are viewed by the superpowers and other states as parts of larger racial, anti-colonial, or ideological contests...read more

Product Description: Stanley Hoffman is a scholar of international relations and French politics who has inspired former students to explore the links between domestic society and foreign policy, and between theory and practice. This collection of essays encapsulates the essence of the thought of Hoffman's generation, as well as providing a record of intellectual achievement from the origins of World War II to the turbulent aftermath of the Cold War...read more