Item Description: | 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 "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." |