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《理解国际冲突:理论与历史》出自国际关系领域一位著名学者之手，它巧妙地把历史与理论结合起来，帮助学生获得一个全面的、有深度的分析当今世界问题和困境的框架。这部书使用了最新的学术研究成果，考察了我们在新时代所面对的国际问题，并且为学生提供了认识和解释未来世界事态发展的工具。
本文作者
约瑟夫·奈（Joseph s．Nye．Jr．）哈佛大学政治学博士，现任哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院院长、政治学教授，曾任美国国防部助理部长、美国国家情报委员会主席，著有《权力与相互依赖》（1977年、1989年、2001年，合著）、《注定领导》（1990年）、《理解国际冲突》（2000年）、《美国霸权的悖论》（2002年），主编有重大影响的论文集多部，他提出的“软权力”理论风靡全球。
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《理解国际冲突:理论与历史》已是第5版，现由我社推出这部经典著作的英文影印版，希望能为我国致力于国际关系理论领域研究的学者和爱好者们提供最新的第一手资料。
在第5版中新增加了关于伊拉克战争的讨论、布什的新国家安全政策、"软权力"的更深层讨论等内容。
目录
FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 Is THERE AN ENDURING LOGIC OF CONFLICT IN WORLD
POLITICS?
What Is International Politics?
Two Views of Anarchic Politics Building Blocks
The Peloponnesian War
A Short Version of a Long Story
Causes and Theories
Inevitability and the Shadow of the Future
Ethical Questions and International Politics
Limits on Ethics in International Relations
Three Views of the Role of Morality Chronology: Peloponnesian Wars Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings Further Readings
CHAPTER 2 ORIGINS OF THE GREAT
TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONFLICTS
International Systems and Levels of Causation
Levels of Analysis
Systems: Structure and Process
Revolutionary and Moderate Goals and Instruments
The Structure and Process of the Nineteenth Century System
A Modern Sequel
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy
Liberalism Revived
Liberal Democracy and War
Definition of National Interests Variations in Foreign Policies
Counterfactuals
Plausibility
Proximity in Time
Relation to Theory
Facts
Chronologies: Europe Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings further Readings
CHAPTER 3 BALANCE OF POWER AND WORLD WAR I
Balance of Power Power
Balances as Distributions of Power
Balance of Power as Policy
Balance of Power as Multipolar Systems Alliances
The Origins of World War I
Three Levels of Analysis
Was War Inevitable?
What Kind of War?
The Funnel of Choices
Lessons of History Again
Chronology:The Road to World War I
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 4 THE FAILURE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND WORLD WARII
The Rise and Fall of Collective Security
The League of Nations
The United States and the League of Nations
The Early Days of the League
The Manchurian Failure
The Ethiopian Debacle
The Origins of World War II
Hitler’s War?
Hitler's Strategy
The Role of the Individual
Systemic and Domestic Causes
Was War Inevitable?
The Pacific War
Appeasement and Two Types of War
Chronology:Between the World Wars
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER5 THE COLD WAR
Deterrence and Containment
Three Approaches to the Cold War
Roosevelt's Policies
Stalin's Policies
Phases of the Conflict
Inevitability?
Levels of Analysis
U.S. and Soviet Goals in the Cold War
Containment
The Rest of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War
The Role of Nuclear Weapons
Physics and Politics
Balance of Terror
Problems of Nuclear Deterrence
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Moral Issues
Chronology: The Cold War Years
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 6 INTERVENTION, INSTITUTIONS, AND REGIONALAND ETHNIC CONFLICTSEthnic Conflicts
Intervention and Sovereignty
Defining Intervention
Sovereignty
Judging Intervention Exceptions to the Rule Problems of Self-Determination Motives, Means, and Consequences
International Law and Organization
Domestic Analogies
Predictability and Legitimacy
The Suez Canal Crisis
U.N. Peacekeeping and Collective Security
Conflicts in the Middle East
The Questions of Nationalism
The Arab-Israeli Conflicts
The 1991 Gulf War and Its Aftermath Chronology: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 7 GLOBALIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCE
The Dimensions of Globalization
What's New About Twenty-first Century Globalization?
Political Reactions to Globalization
Economic Interdependence and Conflict
The Concept of Interdependence
Sources of Interdependence
Benefits of Interdependence
Costs of Interdependence
Symmetry of Interdependence
Leadership in the World Economy
Realism and Complex Interdependence
The Politics of Oil
Oil as a Power Resource
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 8 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION, TRANSNATIONAL
ACTORS, AND THE DIFFUSION OF POWER
Power and the Information Revolution
Lessons from the Past
A New World Politics?
Sovereignty and Control
Transnational Actors
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Transnational Terrorism
Information and Power Among States
The Information Revolution and Complex Interdependence
The Information Revolution and Democratization
Study Questions
Notes
Selected Readings
Further Readings
CHAPTER 9 A NEW WORLD ORDER?
Alternative Designs for the Future
The End of History or the Clash of Civilizations?
Technology and the Diffusion of Power
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Transnational Threats and the Concept of Security
A New World Order?
Future Configurations of Power
The Prison of Old Concepts
The Evolution of a Hybrid World Order
Thinking About the Future
Study Questions Notes
Selected Readings Further Readings
GLOSSARY
CREDITS
INDEX
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