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.
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.
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;
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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