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Force and folly : essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas

Author
Speier, Hans
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1968, c1969].
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vii, 342 p. ; 21 cm.

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Contents
War and peace in the nuclear age.--International political communication: elite vs. mass.--The political value of arms.--Revolutionary War.--Soviet atomic blackmail and the North Atlantic Alliance.--The Suez crises.--Germany in American foreign policy.--The Hallstein doctrine.--On war games.--Some observations on political gaming.--The pitfalls of political humor.--The fool and social order.--Court and tavern in the German Baroque novel.--Simplicissimus, the irreverent fool.--Courage, the adventuress.--Grimmelshausen's laughter.
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Note
"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."
Bibliography Note
Bibliographical footnotes.
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