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Distinguished scholars, policymakers, and journalists compare the effects of prolonged war on ancient Athens during the war with Sparta, and on the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. Despite the very different circumstances of the two conflicts and the radically different way that each was viewed in its own time, the contributors point to many underlying similarities between the two wars.
List of contents
Part 1 Democracy: Bellicose, Imperial, or Idealistic?; Chapter 1 Democratic Warfare, Ancient and Modern, Victor D. Hanson; Chapter 2 The American Imperium, Ronald Steel; Chapter 3 The American Empire: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Robert Kagan; Part2 Categorizing Wars: Civil or Hegemonic, Decisive or Cyclical?; Chapter 4 When SParta Is SParta but Athens Isn’t Athens: Democracy and the Korean War, Bruce Cumings; Chapter 5 Stalin and the Decision for War in Korea, Kathryn Weathersby; Chapter 6 The Effects of the Peloponnesian (Athenian) War on Athenian and SPartan Societies, Paul Cortledge; Part3 Third Forces, or Shrimps Between Whales; Chapter 7 The Case of Plataea: Small States and the (Re-)Invention of Political Realism, Gregory Crane; Chapter 8 The Korean War and North Korean Politics, Dae-Sook Suh; Chapter 9 The Korean War and South Korean Politics, Kongdon Oh; Part4 Demagogues? or Domestic Politics in Democracies at War; Chapter 10 McCarthyism and the Korean War, EllenSchrecker; Chapter 11 Korea, the Cold War, and American Democracy, Stephen J. Whitfield; Chapter 12 Warfare, Democracy, and the Cult of Personality, Jennifer T. Roberts; Part5 Realism, Militarism, and the Culture of Democracies at War; Chapter 13 Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober; Chapter 14 Father of All, Destroyer of All: War in Late Fifth-Century Athenian Discourse and Ideology, Kurt A. Raaflaub; Chapter 15 Characters and Characteristics of Korean War Novels, Dong-Wook Shin;
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David Mccann, Barry S. Strauss
