The Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War

Edited by Williamson Murray, Jim Lacey

ISBN 10: 0521517192 / ISBN 13: 9780521517195

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

About this Item

The Making of Peace studies the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. Editor(s): Murray, Williamson; Lacey, Jim. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: GTJ; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 770. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521517192
• ISBN 13: 9780521517195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Making of Peace represents a unique contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesman have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. It contains a number of case studies by many leading historians in the United States and the United Kingdom.

About the Authors

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC, and Professor Emeritus of History at the Ohio State University. He is co-editor of The Past as Prologue (with Richard Hart Sinnreich), The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050 (with MacGregor Knox), Military Innovation in the Interwar Period (with Allan R. Millett), and The Making of Strategy (with Alvin Bernstein and MacGregor Knox).

Jim Lacey is an analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC, where he has written several studies on the war in Iraq and on the Global War on Terrorism. Lacey was also an embedded journalist with Time magazine during the invasion of Iraq, during which he traveled with the 101st Airborne Division. He is the author of Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division's 21-Day Assault on Baghdad.