International Security and Conflict

A collection of articles and papers that presents a variety of perspectives on key topics in international security and conflict. It draws on international scholars working from different kinds of theories (realist, liberal-institutionalist, and constructivist) and research methods to ask why nation-states may fight violently or stay at peace.

This important collection of classic articles and papers presents a variety of perspectives on key topics in international security and conflict. These include how the structure of the international system constrains nations' choices, how domestic politics may affect decisions on war and peace, how individual and small group behavior can affect foreign policy, and how international organizations can affect the security of states and peoples. Some of the selections are classics, but most are represent recent research and analysis. They draw on international scholars working from different kinds of theories (realist, liberal-institutionalist, and constructivist) and research methods to ask why nation-states may fight violently or stay at peace. Bruce Russett has written and taught about international security questions since 1961.

Introduction
Part I How the structure of the International System Constrains Nations' Choices: Theories of war in an era of leading-power peace, Robert Jervis
The future of the American pacifier, John J. Mearsheimer
The stability of a unipolar world, William Wohlforth
Legitimacy and the use of force: can the circle be squared?, Andrew Hurrell
Escape from the state of nature: authority and hierarchy in world politics, David Lake
Same war - different views: Germany, Japan, and counterterrorism, Peter J. Katzenstein.
Part II How Domestic Politics May Affect Decisions on War and Peace: The democratic advantage: institutional foundations of financial power in international competition, Kenneth A. Schultz and Barry R. Weingast
Seeking peace in a pos-Cold war world of hegemony and terrorism, John R. Oneal and Bruce Russett
The antimony of democratic peace, Harald Muller
The democratic peace theory reframed: the impact of modernity, Azar Gat
The clash of civilizations?, Samuel P. Huntington.
Part III How Individual and Small Group Behavior Can Affect Foreign Policy: Conceptual models and the Cuban missile crisis, Graham T. Allison
The integrative complexity of American decision makers in the Cuban missile crisis, Karen Guttieri, Michael D. Wallace, and Peter Suedfeld
Democratic leaders and the democratic peace: the operational codes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker
Foreign policy and the rational public in comparative perspective, Pierangelo Isernia, Zoltan Juhasz and Hans Rattinger
Gender differences in public attitudes towards the use of force by the United States, 1990-2003, Richard C. Eichenberg
Further tests of the women and peace hypothesis: evidence from cross-national survey research in the Middle East, Mark Tessler, Jodi Nachwey and Audra Grant.
Part IV How International Organizations Can Affect the Security of States and Peoples: Why states act through formal international organizations, Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal
he politics, power, and pathologies of international organizations, Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore
The strategic use of liberal internationalism: Libya and the UN sanctions, 1992-2003, Ian Hurd
Does peacekeeping keep peace? International intervention and the duration of peace after civil war, Virginia Page Fortna
'Women and children first': gender, norms, and humanitarian evacuation in the Balkans, 1991-95, R. Charli Carpenter
Index.