Armed Force and Governance Strategies -- Foreign Policy Issues of Our Time

Author: (USA) Craig, (USA) George, translated by Shi Yinong, Zhou Guiyin, Shi Bin
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book, published in 1983, has been widely used as a textbook for international relations in the United States and Canada and has been praised as a classic by many renowned scholars. Both authors teach at Stanford University. Craig is an outstanding historian specializing in international affairs, while George is an accomplished political scientist. The book is divided into two parts with 20 chapters. The first part explains the evolution of the international system from the 17th century to the present, with exceptional theoretical thinking reflected in historical arguments. The second part analyzes the issues of force and diplomacy involved in maintaining the international system (including negotiation, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, crisis management, ending war, de-escalation, the role of force in diplomacy, ethical constraints on the use of force, and the significant changes in diplomacy in the contemporary era, etc.), with the skillful use of historical examples providing appropriate support for the theoretical framework. In the 1995 revised third edition, the authors expanded or adjusted some chapters, adding content related to the Gulf War, the end of the Cold War, the major changes in Eastern Europe, German reunification, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, thereby reflecting in a timely manner the transformed global political landscape and its impact on foreign policy since the 1990s.