The Impact of Wars on World Politics, 1775-2023

Hope and Despair
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-65841-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

Reihe: Contributions to International Relations

In a study of cyclical history, this book presents a grand sweep of modern history and how decades of savage wars, and turbulence, led to a brief era of exhilaration and hope, followed by despair in the new century. The collapse of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the Soviet Union (1991), marking the end of the Cold War, were celebrated with great euphoria. 

The book points out that the defeat of Soviet communism by the Western allies was one of the most consequential outcomes of great power conflict in the twentieth century, comparable to the defeat of fascism in the Second World War, and of the Central Powers led by Germany and Austria-Hungary in the First World War. 

However, optimistic predictions of a peaceful and orderly world after the Cold War proved wrong, and new challenges emerged across the globe such as international and regional conflicts, climate change, and mass migration. The book explains how the initial excitement and hope after the collapse of the Soviet Union turned to new challenges, and despair, continuing the cycle of history. 

Tripathi's scholarly rigor, combined with his journalistic clarity, makes this book a landmark publication that stands out for its depth, relevance, and the urgent message it conveys about the necessity of learning from history to navigate the challenges of the future. 

This book is a strong, well-written, and explorative testimony of war and conflict, their roots and dynamics, as well as consequences and impact on politics and human lives. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tripathi, Deepak

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Wealth and War.- Chapter 2. Great Depression and War.- Chapter 3. Cold War.- Chapter 4. Decolonization.- Chapter 5. Revolutions and Rebellions.- Chapter 6. War and Globalization.- Chapter 7. New Century.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. A former journalist, Tripathi worked for the BBC for 23 years as a foreign correspondent, commentator, and editor. As the BBC Afghanistan correspondent, he set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s. He also reported from Syria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India. Tripathi is the author of various books on the Middle East.