Can I read Raymond Aron on War and Strategy: A Framework for Conceptualizing International Relations Today on EtoBox?

Raymond Aron on War and Strategy: A Framework for Conceptualizing International Relations Today by Jean-Vincent Holeindre is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Raymond Aron on War and Strategy: A Framework for Conceptualizing International Relations Today about?

A re Raymond Aron's views on war and strategy still relevant to twenty-first- century scholars who try to think about war? 1 Many scholars doubt this, suggesting that the analyses of Aron belong to the bygone age of twentiethcentury wars. 2 A child during the event in Sarajevo that triggered the Great War in 1914, Aron died a mere six years before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the event that brought the Soviet Union's confrontation with the United States to an end. Since then, international relations have significantly changed: the USSR has disappeared, making way for liberal democracy and the dynamics of globalization; interstate wars have gradually been replaced by internal wars and irregular conf licts that pit regular armies against actors who are subnational ("insurgents," "rebels," guerrilla fighters) or transnational (terrorist groups, mafias). 3 Aron's century is undeniably behind us, but his strategic thought and, more generally, his theory of international relations, are still relevant for us. His work continues to inform our thinking about strategic problems and that is why he should be considered as a classical theorist, not only as a "cold warrior," a journalist

Author

Jean-Vincent Holeindre

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137522429

Subjects

Sociology, History, Political Science