These lively essays, reflecting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, offer both deep insights into the forces and factors that led to war in Europe a century ago, and important lessons for the future of Asia. They draw on extensive historical knowledge and real expertise in contemporary Asian affairs, and engage directly in key policy debates. A major contribution ... Read moreto a vital subject. Strongly recommended!
Hugh White, author of The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power and Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University The analyses in Lessons from World War I, based on rigorous qualitative research, are powerful as they provide a convincing linkage between the possibility of international war and human and state-level efforts to prevent or avoid it. Key-young Son, Seoul, Global Times (Beijing), 26.7.2015 Show Less