Force and folly
Subtitle: essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas.
Series: M.I.T. studies in comparative politics; M.I.T. studies in comparative politics series.
Publisher: M.I.T. Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: World politics -- 1955-1965 -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"The papers presented here were written in the last ten years, so that this book may be regarded as a sequel to Social order and the risks of war ... first published in 1952."
Table of contents: title: War and peace in the nuclear age.; title: International political communication: elite vs. mass.; title: The political value of arms.; title: Revolutionary War.; title: Soviet atomic blackmail and the North Atlantic Alliance.; title: The Suez crises.; title: Germany in American foreign policy.; title: The Hallstein doctrine.; title: On war games.; title: Some observations on political gaming.; title: The pitfalls of political humor.; title: The fool and social order.; title: Court and tavern in the German Baroque novel.; title: Simplicissimus, the irreverent fool.; title: Courage, the adventuress.; title: Grimmelshausen's laughter.