Force and folly essays on foreign affairs and the history of ideas.
| Main Author: | Speier, Hans. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
M.I.T. Press,
[1968, c1969]
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| Physical Description: |
vii, 342 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
M.I.T. studies in comparative politics.
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| Subjects: |
Table of 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.