Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars (Published in Association With the John W. Mccormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Univ of Massachusetts Boston)

O'Malley, Padraig [Editor]; Atwood, Paul L. [Editor]; Peterson, Patricia [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1558495355 / ISBN 13: 9781558495357

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 2006

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Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Sticks & Stones: Living With Uncertain Wars is a collection of essays examining the evolving nature of modern conflict in the post?Cold War and post-9/11 world. Edited by Padraig O?Malley, Paul L. Atwood, and Patricia Peterson, the volume brings together scholars, policymakers, and journalists to explore global instability, the war on terror, and the challenges of exporting democracy.Published by the University of Massachusetts Press, this work is a thoughtful academic contribution to studies of international relations, military policy, and global security in the twenty-first century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sticks and Stones: Living with Uncertain Wars (Published in Association With the John W. Mccormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Univ of Massachusetts Boston)
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558495355
• ISBN 13: 9781558495357
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 18 ounces
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Synopsis

Albert Einstein famously remarked that he did not know what weapons would be used in World War III, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars, government officials, politicians, journalists, and statesmen examine what can be learned from the wars of the twentieth century and how that knowledge might help us as we step ever so perilously into the twenty-first.

Following an introduction by Padraig O'Malley, the book is divided into four sections: "Understanding the World as We Have Known It"; "Global Uncertainties"; "Whose Values? Whose Justice?"; and "Shaping a New World." The first section reviews what we have learned about war and establishes benchmarks for judging whether that knowledge is being translated into changes in the behavior of our political cultures. It suggests that the world's premier superpower, in its effort to promote Western-style democracy, has taken steps that have inhibited rather than facilitated democratization.

The second section examines the war on terror and the concept of global war. From the essays in this section emerges a consensus that democracy as practiced in the West cannot be exported to countries with radically different cultures, traditions, and values. The third section visits the question of means and ends in the context of varying value systems and of theocracy, democracy, and culture. In the final section, the focus shifts to our need for global institutions to maintain order and assist change in the twenty-first century.

Although each contributor comes from a different starting point, speaks with a different voice, and has a different ideological perspective, the essays reach startlingly similar conclusions. In sum, they find that the West has not absorbed the lessons from the wars of the last century and is inadequately prepared to meet the new challenges that now confront us.

Contributors to the volume include J. Brian Atwood, Susan J. Atwood, John Cooley, Romeo Dallaire, Ramu Damodaran, Valerie Epps, Michael J. Glennon, Stanley Heginbotham, Robert Jackson, Winston Langley, Alfred W. McCoy, Greg Mills, Jonathan Moore, Chris Patten, Gwyn Prins, Jonathan Schell, John Shattuck, Cornelio Sommargua, Brian Urquhart, Stephen Van Evera, and Robert Weiner.

About the Author

Padraig O'Malley is editor of the New England Journal of Public Policy and author of Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today.

Paul L. Atwood is lecturer in American studies and research associate at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Patricia Peterson is managing editor of the New England Journal of Public Policy .