Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 554 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Table and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Glossary -- 1. Purposes and Problems for the Statistical Analysis of Wars -- 1.1 Enlightenment and Peace Research -- 1.2 Theoretical and Methodological Problems -- 2. Definitions and Inclusion Criteria for the List of Wars Since the Second World War -- 2.1 Definition of "War" -- 2.2 The Wagers of War: "Aggressors" and the "Aggressed" -- 2.3 Regional Categorization of Countries at War -- 2.4 Duration of the Wars -- 2.5 Types of War -- 2.6 Forms of Conflict -- 2.7 War Termination and War Results -- 3. Reference List of Wars, 1945-1992 -- 4. Evaluating War Since 1945 -- 4.1. Methodological Remarks -- 4.2 The Steady Increase of the Global Burden of War -- 4.3 War in the Peripheries, Peace in the Center: The RegionalDistribution of the Wars -- 4.4 The Wagers of War: The Third World at War with Itself -- 4.5 Types of War: A Historical Shift in the Struggle overStatehood and Power? -- 4.6 Third-Party Intervention-A Losing Proposition? -- 4.7 Time and Suffering: Duration and Victims of War -- 4.8 Does Power Propel War? -- 4.9 What is Fought For and Where: The Forms of Conflict -- 4.10 How War Ends: Termination and Outcome -- 5. Afterword: Warfare in 1995 -- 5.1 Main Trends in Warfare after 1945 -- 5.2 Causes of War Since 1945 -- 5.3 The Fall of States and the Diffusion of Violence -- 5.4 A Political and Social Dilemma -- 5.5 On Ending Wars and Regulating Peace -- The War Register, 1945-1992 -- The Americas -- Central America and the Caribbean -- South America -- Europe -- Near and Middle East -- Africa -- North Africa -- West Africa -- Central Africa -- East Africa -- Southern Africa -- Asia -- South and Southeast Asia -- East Asia -- Appendices -- Chronological List of Wars, 1945-1992 |
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Wars, 1945-1992, Ordered by War type -- Wars, 1945-1992, Ordered by War Number -- Directory of Wars in which the USA, the USSR/RussianFederation, or the Former Colonial Powers of Great Britain,Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain Participated -- Directory of Countries at War, Ordered by Region -- Directory of Casualties and the Costs of War, 1945-1992 -- Additional Lists -- Directory of Wars Ongoing as of December 31,1992 -- Directory of Wars Waged in 1993 (as of December 31,1993) -- Directory of Wars Waged in 1994 (as of December 31,1994) -- Directory of Wars Waged in 1995 (as of December 31,1995) -- Directory of Colonial Independence -- Directory of States -- Bibliography -- Key to Authors Name |
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Non-Latin script record |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-554) |
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In English and German |
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Description based on print version record |
Subject |
War -- History -- 20th century.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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War.
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World politics.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bach, Jonathon P. G., translator
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Jung, Dietrich, writer of foreword
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Schlichte, Klaus, writer of foreword.
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Schwinghammer, Torsten, author.
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Siegelberg, Jens, writer of foreword
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ISBN |
1351289713 |
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9781351289719 |
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