Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here
presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity
of expression. In examining the main currents in modern social
theory, the author has gone directly to the works of the leading
philosophic figures. This book is a carefully documented analysis
based on primary sources. Its republication in an expanded version
after more than a half century since its initial appearance is a
welcome addition to the literature on conflict and conflict
resolution.
In this 2007 greatly expanded third edition of "The Idea of War
and Peace," Irving Louis Horowitz provides a sense of substance to
the character of Western Civilization. The book permits the reader
to better understand what the "clash of civilizations" is about. It
provides a broad outline of both European and American twentieth
century social philosophies as they relate to the issue of war and
peace. It also offers a new concluding section that explores in
depth this same theme in the first decade of the twenty-first
century.
Such major figures as Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Jacques
Maritain, Albert Einstein, and Vladimir Lenin, reviewed in earlier
editions, are now joined by examinations of the work of Raymond
Aron, Harold D. Lasswell, and other contemporaries. "The Idea of
War and Peace" is not just one more manual of how to conduct or
avoid conflict, and even less, a guideline to policy-making.
Instead, the work offers a profound sense of the theories and
values that underline manuals and guides.
This third edition is graced by a consideration of major
figures in the second half of the twentieth century and a
retrospective on the work of Niccolo Machiavelli on the nature of
warfare. It also includes chapters on the relationship of war,
peace, and the democratic order--and a postscript on new forms of
state power and terrorism. This new edition links past and present
and serves as an analytical bridge between centuries.
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