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Title: The State, War, and the State of War by Kalevi J. Holsti ISBN: 0-521-57790-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, but a bit bland...
Comment: I have heard a lot of good things about Kal HOlsti, and I've seen his works cited in a lot of IR books. But I've got to say, I was a little disappointed with this book. There seems to be a lot of hype and not that much substance. Anyway, my thoughts on this book...
This book argues that the traditional ways of analyzing the international system and war are inappropriate in the context of intrastate conflict and wars. However, if this is the argument, then why isn't there more of an emphasis on new analytical tools? The first half of the book spends an inordinate amount of time going over basic IR notions and theories like Thomas Hobbes, the Westphalian system, Rousseau, Morgenthau and so on. Some of this book's observations seem a bit redundant. Like the colonial powers didn't intend their colonies to eventually become participatory democracies. Well, that's an obvious if redundant statement. I think I found this book a little dry because it still is Euro-centric and very theoretical even though it posits that Euro-centrism isn't necessarily the best way to view intrastate conflicts. However, I'm going to give Holsti another try and read another of his books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Holsti is God!
Comment:
As a student of Professor Holsti at the Univ. of BC, I could not help but to be impressed with this book. He gives an indepth historical survey of Mankind's war, then focuses on what he dubs as the "wars of the third kind" or low-intensity conflict. He documents case studies on each wars of the third kind, then focuses on what can be done to resolve this new type of conflict.
Two thumbs up, Professor Holsti!
Jeong Lee
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Title: The Logic of Regional Integration : Europe and Beyond by Walter Mattli ISBN: 0521635365 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 20 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: State, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-First Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-In Moon, Georg Sorensen ISBN: 9280810766 Publisher: United Nations Publications Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era by Mary Kaldor ISBN: 0804737223 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan ISBN: 1400040930 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Man, the State, and War by Kenneth N. Waltz ISBN: 0231125372 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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