Thinking About Peace and War by Martin Ceadel
Proposals for the prevention of war are as old as war itself. Yet this is the first book to offer a coherent, intellectual framework for the study of such proposals, providing the historical background necessary for a clear understanding of the current nuclear debate. Arguing that much of the patternless debate about peace proposals can be reduced to disagreements about the basic ideologies of international relations, Ceadel presents his own framework for studying the debate, examines why support for these ideologies has varied from country to country and at different points in history, and considers the special problems posed by the threat of nuclear war. Ceadel disentangles three strategic dimensions of the nuclear issue--the global balance between the U.S. and Russia, the European crisis, and Britain's stand--and analyzes the cases for and against nuclear deterrence.Martin Ceadel is Professor of Politics at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, where he has taught since 1979. His academic interests straddle British politics and international relations. He has been described (in the journal Quaker History) as the pre-eminent historian of British peace
movements. His most recent book, Semi-detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945 (OUP, 2000), was (according to the journal Political Studies) about as good as the academy gets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192822314 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192822314 |
| Title | Thinking About Peace and War |
| Author | Martin Ceadel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1989-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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