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Book SynopsisPhilip Windsor (1935-2000) is widely acknowledged to have been among the brightest and most penetrating of thinkers in International Relations. This book brings together some of his most exciting and stimulating essays, covering many of the classic and most enduring issues in International Relations: the causes of wars; intervention and the use of force; the regulation of conflict; human rights and the tensions between order and justice. Windor's philosophical bias, together with his elegant prose and sheer breadth of knowledge, gave an underlying coherence and unity to all his writings. The essays include brilliant essays on East-West relations during the Cold War, arms control, Clausewitz's contribution to strategic thought, Henry Kissinger's scholarly contribution and the place of human rights and cultural dialogue in international politics.
Trade Review"These essays offer a classic introduction to our era... Whether he is discussing the vexed question of human rights... or the challenge that terrorism poses to the international order, we can learn much from his wisdom. These essays command our attention not only as an expression of the author's enduring insights, but as a preview of our own century..." -- Survival.
"...will remind those who were so privileged of his penetrating insight into the nature of international relations and of the humans who make them and write about them..." -- Professor Margot Light, London School of Economics.
"Many of these essays made a lasting impression on those who read them when they first appeared. Mats Berdal is to be congratulated on introducing them to a new generation of readers..." -- Professor James Mayall, Cambridge University.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: A cross-roads rather than an academic discipline' -- Philip Windsor and the Study of International Relations; International Relations -- The State of the Art; The Justification of the State; The Twentieth Century as Self-Conscious History; War and the State; Cultural Dialogue in Human Rights; NATO's Twenty-five Years; The Boundaries of Detente; Restoring the Dynamics of Arms Control; Towards a Hierarchy for Arms Control; The Enigma of a Gifted Soul: Aron on Clausewitz; The Clock, the Context and Clausewitz; Strategic Thinking after the Cold War; The Politics of Impotence; Some Reflections on Grenada; The Saviour from the Sea; America's Moral Confusion: Separating the Should from the Good; Terrorism and International Order ; Superpower Intervention; Women and International Relations: What's the Problem?; Henry Kissinger's Scholarly Contribution; List of Original Texts; Index.
