War and Peace in an Age of Terrorism: A Reader Book

I. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW.

Reading 1: The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.

Reading 2: The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Reading 3: The Art of War and Military Thoughts by Martin Van Creveld.

II. THE WAR ON TERRORISM.

Reading 4: “America’s New War on Terror: The Case for Self-Defense under International Law” by Jack M. Beard.

Reading 5: “The New Cold War” by J.J. Goldberg.

Reading 6: “The Many Threats of Terror” by Richard L. Garwin.

Reading 7: “Rethinking Terrorism and Counterterrorism Since 9/11” by Bruce Hoffman.

Reading 8: “Weapons of Mass Salvation” by Jefferey Sachs.

Reading 9: “A Systemic Analysis of International Terrorism” by Fritjof Capra.

III. RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR THEORIES OF JUST AND UNJUST WAR.

Reading 10: “Ethics and War: A Catholic View.” By Joseph C. McKenna.

Reading 11: “The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends” by Thomas D. Paxson, Jr.

Reading 12: “The 1660 Declaration of Friends to Charles II” by George Fox and Others.

Reading 13: “War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition” by Michael Walzer.

Reading 14: “Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Tradition” by Sohail H. Hashmi.

Reading 15: “Himsa and Ahimsa Traditions in Hinduism” by Klaus K. Klostermaier.

Reading 16: “Peace and Non-violence in Buddhism” by Roy C. Amore.

Reading 17: “The Just War” by Michael Walzer.

IV. THEORIES OF THE CAUSES OF WAR.

Biological Theories.

Reading 18: “The Biology of Peace and War” by Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.

Reading 19: “The Seville Statement on Violence.”

Reading 20: “The Seville Statement on Violence Revisited” by John Paul Scott and Benson Ginsburg.

Economic Theories.

Reading 21: “The Economics of War and Peace” by Christopher Mark Davis.

Reading 22: “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy.

Reading 23: “The Arms Bonana” by James Adams.

Reading 24: “The Global Arms Trade” by William M Evan.

Technological Theories.

Reading 25: “War in the Atomic Age” by Bernard Brodie.

Reading 26: “Technology and War” by Martin Van Crevald.

Reading 27: “World War III Now?” by Geoffrey Forden.

Reading 28: “Chemical Weapons as Means of Attack” by Anthony H Cordesman.

Reading 29: “Biological Weapons as a Means of Attack” by Anthony H Cordesman.

Reading 30: “Technology against Terror” by Rocco Casagrande.

Political Theories.

Reading 31: “Multipolar Systems and International Stability” by Karl W. Deutsch and J. David Singer.

Reading 32: “The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate” by Kenneth Waltz and Scott D. Sagan.

Psychological Theories.

Reading 33: “The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis” by Neal E. Miller et al.

Reading 34: “Why Men Fight: Psychosocial Determinants” by Jerome D. Frank.

Reading 35: “Nobody Wanted War” by Ralph K. White.

Reading 36: “Know your Enemy: A Psychological Profile of Terrorism” by Colin A. Ross.

Reading 37: “Exchange of Correspondence on War” by Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

Sociological/Anthropological Theories.

Reading 38: “Warfare is only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity” by Margaret Mead.

Reading 39: “An Anthropological Analysis of War” by Bronislaw Malinowski.

Reading 40: “Why Nations Go To War” by John G. Stoessinger.

V. THEORIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR.

Negotiation Strategies.

Reading 41: “Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving Up” by Roger Fisher and William Ury.

Non violence Strategies.

Reading 42: “The Politics of Non-Violent Action” by Gene Sharp.

Reading 43: “The Nonviolent Moment as Peak Experience” by Michael Nagler.

Reading 44: “Toward a Confederation of Israel, Palestine and Jordan” by William M. Evan.

International Law.

Reading 45: “The Rights of War and Peace” by Hugo Grotius.

Reading 46: “War Crimes” by William M. Evan.

Reading 47: “Legality of the Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons” (abstract).

International Court of Justice.

Reading 48: “Constitution of Japan.”

Reading 49: “Kashmir: Invoking International Law to Avoid Nuclear War” by William M. Evan and Francis A. Boyle.

Minimal Moral Framework.

Reading 50: “A Strategy for Peace” by Sissela Bok.

Reading 51: “A Global Ethic in World Politics” by Hans Kung.

Peace Movements.

Reading 52: “American Peace Activism” by Charles DeBenedetti.

Reading 53: “The Transnational Movement Against Nuclear Weapons” by Lawrence S. Wittner.

Reading 54: “Antiwar Movement Morphs from Wild-Eyed to Civil” by Kate Zernike and Dean E. Murphy.

Democracy, Democratization and Peace.

Reading 55: “Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post Cold War World” by Bruce Russett.

Reading 56: “Democratization and War” by Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder.

Reading 57: “Fanatical Terrrorism versus Disciplines of Constitutional Democracy” by Chester A. Newland.

Reading 58: “Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror” by Thomas Carothers.

Appendix I–Civil Wars and International Conflicts 1945-1995.

Appendix II–Country Rankings: Military Expenditures, Armed Forces Personnelm, Arms Imports and Exports (1999).

Appendix III–Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2003-1901.