Essays On Military Conflict And Cooperation

"The dissertation consists of three distinct essays on multilateral military conflict. The first essay asks a simple question: what conditions are favorable for communication among military partners? It uses a formal model to demonstrate that, counter to conventional wisdom, communication is most difficult when the preferences of potential military coalition partners are aligned. It also considers how the audience of diplomatic communication matters, demonstrating that private communication is most effective. The second essay considers issues of commitment, analyzing when states desire neutrality. In contrast to the standard logic of deterrence, the essay shows that states may benefit by undermining their own ability to stage a military intervention. This creates an incentive for primary disputants to entrap allies in conflict before commitment to neutrality can occur. The results outline the limits of the traditional logic of deterrence, as well as call into question existing arguments about wars of entrapment. The third essay develops a general model of multilateral crisis bargaining to establish results that do not depend upon the details of a specific game form. This general framework is leveraged to analyze a large class of game forms in which privately informed allies may band together to fight a shared enemy. The results uncover a connection to monotonicity properties found in models of bilteral conflict. Additionally, the essay highlights the limits of alliance design. When the resolve of allies is imbalanced, it is not possible to design an alliance institution that eliminates the risk of abandonment and entrapment simultaneously."--Pages ix-x.

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an overview of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change. It presents studies that move beyond the very concept of globalization.

This book collects the key essays, together with updating notes and commentary, of Professor John Mueller on war and the role of ideas and opinions. Mueller has maintained that war (and peace) are, in essence, merely ideas, and that war has waned as the notion that 'peace' is a decidedly good idea has gained currency. The first part of the book extends this argument, noting that as ideas have spread, war is losing out not only in the developed world, but now in the developing one, and that even civil war is in marked decline. It also assesses and critiques theories arguing that this phenomenon is caused by the rising acceptance of democracy and/or capitalism. The second part argues that the Cold War was at base a clash of ideas that were seen to be threatening, not of arms balances, domestic systems, geography, or international structure. It also maintains that there has been a considerable tendency to exaggerate security threats—currently, in particular, the one presented by international terrorism—and to see them in excessively military terms. The third section deals with the role public opinion plays in foreign policy, and argues that many earlier conclusions about opinion during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, including especially ones concerning the importance of casualties in determining popular support for war, apply to more recent military ventures in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. It also assesses the difficulties leaders and idea entrepreneurs often encounter when they try to manage or manipulate public opinion. This book will be of much interest to students of international relations, security studies, foreign policy and international history.

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Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is proliferating, yet this literature remains welded to traditional conceptualizations of Just War. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition's ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting. The essays in The Future of Just War seek to reorient the tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. The pursuit of these challenges involves both a reclaiming of traditional Just War principles from those who would push it toward greater permissiveness with respect to war, as well as the application of Just War principles to emerging issues, such as the growing use of robotics in war or the privatization of force. These essays share a commitment to the idea that the tradition is more about a rigorous application of Just War principles than the satisfaction of a checklist of criteria to be met before waging “just” war in the service of national interest.

A stimulating and fluent collection of essays by an important historian and strategic thinker which examines, with honesty and clarity, international attitudes and moral postures towards war. Charting the effects of the past coupled with current opinion, this books offers a powerful coherence of reasoned thought on the whole subject.

A selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an overview of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change. It presents studies that move beyond the very concept of globalization.

This book is a collection of essays on the themes of war and peace, written by some of the most influential thinkers and activists of the Twentieth Century. It covers a wide range of topics, including the causes of war, the benefits of peace, the role of diplomacy and international law in resolving conflicts, and the importance of disarmament and global cooperation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.