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Routledge War and Ideas: Selected Essays by John Mueller

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War and Ideas collects Professor John Mueller's most significant essays exploring how ideas and opinions shape the course of human conflict. Mueller argues that war and peace are fundamentally products of ideology, and demonstrates how the spread of peace as a desirable concept has driven a measurable decline in warfare across developed and developing nations alike. The book traces this argument through multiple contexts, including the waning of interstate conflict, the reduction of civil war, and the growing cultural rejection of military solutions. Each essay includes updated notes and critical commentary that contextualise Mueller's work within broader scholarly debates about international relations, the causes of conflict, and the role of ideas in human history. This collection offers readers a comprehensive examination of how shifting beliefs about war's necessity and morality have reshaped global patterns of violence.

Key Features

War and Ideas assembles Mueller's foundational essays on how ideological shifts have reduced warfare in both developed and developing regions worldwide.

The book includes updating notes and commentary throughout, providing context for Mueller's arguments within contemporary international relations scholarship.

Mueller's theory posits that peace functions as an idea that gains traction through cultural spread, directly countering traditional realist approaches to conflict.

Essays analyse the marked decline in civil war alongside the reduction of interstate conflict, supported by Mueller's empirical historical analysis.

Published by Routledge, this collection serves as a key reference for understanding the ideational foundations of peace and war in modern history.

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10 May 2011
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07 June 2010

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