Man, the State, and War
内容简介
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.
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作者简介
Kenneth N. Waltz is a recipient of the James Madison Award for distinguished scholarly contributions to political science from the American Political Science Association. He is Ford Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now at the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics, Theory of International Politics, and coauthor of The Spread of Nuclear Weapons.
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目录
Foreword, by by William T.R. Fox
Introduction The First Image: International Conflict and Human Behavior
Some Implications of the First Image: The Behavioral Sciences and the Reduction of Interstate Violence
The Second Image: International Conflict and the Internal Structure of States
Some Implications of the Second Image: International Socialism and the Coming of the First World War
The Third Image: International Conflict and International Anarchy
Some Implications of the Third Image: Examples from Economics, Politics, and History Conclusion
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读书文摘
如果统治者通过吞并敌人的疆土来扩张其帝国的话，国家又怎么能够为其人民服务并增加他们的幸福呢？……如果我悲哀而又忧愁地生活在压迫和贫困之中，那么即便我的君主功成名就且荣耀无比，我的国家实力强大且令人畏惧，又能对我和我的同胞有什么帮助呢？
7 威尔逊相信，从道德层面而言，帮助他国实现政治革新是义不容辞的责任；而科布登却认为这甚至并非是正当之举。对于在何处寻找战争的根源，他们两人的观点是一致的，但在政策结论上他们却分道扬镳
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