1. Some material and ideas from this chapter were taken from William Nester, American Power, the New World Order, and the Japanese Challenge (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
2. For some prominent works on war and peace, see Raymond Aron, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations (New York: Praeger, 1968);
3. Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981);
4. Michael Howard, The Causes of War and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983);
5. Robert J. Art and Kenneth Waltz, eds., The Use of Force: International Politics and Foreign Policy (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983);