Soldiers, statecraft, and history : coercive diplomacy and international order /

Main Author: Nathan, James A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Westphalia and the rise of modern diplomacy
  • Force, order, and diplomacy in the age of Louis XIV
  • The heyday of the balance of power: Frederick the Great and the decline of the old regime
  • The French Revolution: "a virus of a new and unknown kind"
  • War and order: the "juggernaut of war" meets a "legitimate" peace
  • On appeasement and parvenus: managing the challenge of new power
  • On coercive diplomacy and the American foreign affairs experience.