In honour of Prof. Kalevi Holsti's 80th birthday this book includes key texts by the renowned
Canadian International Relations scholar on war the state peace and the international order.
The first part includes texts on the Study of War Use of Force in International Politics: Four
Revolutions and The Decline of Interstate War while the second part analyses International
Sports Competition and the Creation and Sustenance of Statehood as well as Internationalism
and Nationalism within the Multi-Community State. The third part addresses The Peacemakers:
Issues and International Order Governance Without Government: Polyarchy in 19th-Century
European International Politics and The Post-Cold War 'Settlement' in Comparative Perspective.
Prof. Holsti is a former president of the International Studies Association and the author of a
major textbook that was translated into Mandarin Korean Japanese and Bahasa Indonesian.
Thousands of undergraduates around the world are acquainted with his work.
