Studies in International Relations Essays by Philip Windsor
Edited by Mats Berdal
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Now Available in Paperback
“These essays offer a classic
introduction to our era... Whether he is discussing the vexed question
of human rights... or the challenge that terrorism poses to the
international order, we can learn much from his wisdom. These
essays command our attention not only as an expression of the author’s
enduring insights, but as a preview of our own century.” Survival
“Studies in International Relations will remind those who were so privileged of his penetrating insight into the nature of international relations and of the humans who make them and write about them.” Professor Margot Light, London School of Economics
“Many of these essays made a lasting impression on those who read them when they first appeared. Mats Berdal is to be congratulated on introducing them to a new generation of readers.” Professor James Mayall, Cambridge University
Philip Windsor (1935–2000) is widely acknowledged to have been among the very brightest and most penetrating of thinkers in International Relations. This book brings together some of his most exciting and intellectually stimulating essays, written over a period of twenty-five years and covering many of the classic and most enduring issues in the study of International Relations: the causes of wars; intervention and the use of force; the regulation of conflict; human rights and the tensions between the demands of order and justice in international affairs.
