Authors: John G. Stoessinger
ISBN-13: 9780495797180, ISBN-10: 0495797189
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: 11st Edition
Dr. John G. Stoessinger is an internationally recognized political analyst and a prize-winning author of ten leading books on world politics. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia and Princeton. From 1967-1974, he served as acting director of the political affairs division at the United Nations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lectures extensively throughout the world. On the eve of World War II, Dr. Stoessinger fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Czechoslovakia. Three years later, he fled again via Siberia to China, where he lived for seven years in Shanghai. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Bancroft Prize. He presently serves as Distinguished Professor of Global Diplomacy at the University of San Diego, and has been listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA and WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD since 2002 to the present.
Transmitting an understanding of warfare from World War I to the present, WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR, a unique book and a product of reflection by author, John G. Stoessinger, is built around ten case studies, culminating in the new wars that ushered in the twenty-first century: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars between Arabs and Israelis in Gaza and in Lebanon. The distinguishing feature of the book remains the author's emphasis on the pivotal role of the personalities of leaders who take their nations, or their following, across the threshold into war.
Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | The Iron Dice: World War I | 1 |
2 | Barbarossa: Hitler's Attack on Russia | 25 |
3 | The Temptations of Victory: Korea | 53 |
4 | A Greek Tragedy in Five Acts: Vietnam | 81 |
5 | The Forty Years' War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs | 111 |
6 | The War Lover: Saddam Hussein's Two Wars in the Persian Gulf | 157 |
7 | From Sarajevo to Sarajevo: The War over the Remains of Yugoslavia | 185 |
8 | Why Nations Go to War | 207 |
Epilogue | 220 | |
Index | 227 |