States, Nations, and the Great Powers

The Sources of Regional War and Peace

By:

Benjamin Miller

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

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Why are some regions prone to war while others remain at peace? What conditions cause regions to move from peace to war and vice versa? This book offers a novel theoretical explanation for the differences and transitions between war and peace. The author distinguishes between 'hot' and 'cold' outcomes, depending on intensity of the war or the peace, and then uses three key concepts (state, nation, and the international system) to argue that it is the specific balance between states and nations in different regions that determines the hot or warm outcomes: the lower the balance, the higher the war proneness of the region, while the higher the balance, the warmer the peace. The theory of regional war and peace developed in this book is examined through case-studies of the post-1945 Middle East, the Balkans and South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and post-1945 Western Europe.

Author Biography:

Benjamin Miller is a Professor in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (1995).

Release date Australia

August 30th, 2007

Author

Benjamin Miller

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

22 Tables, unspecified; 8 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

526

Series

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

Dimensions

152x229x29

ISBN-13

9780521871228

Product ID

2393979

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