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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2 / 2006  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW - FLORIN DIACONU, CLASSIC LIMITED WAR AND TOTAL WAR. ELEMENTS OF THEORY AND POLITICAL-MILITARY HISTORY, BUCHAREST, BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006, 244 P., PREFACE BY DANIEL BARBU.

Authors:  RUXANDRA IVAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The scientific discipline of International Relations was founded in 1919, at the University of Aberystwyth, with the specific aim at understanding the causes of war. Ever since the First World War and the creation of the League of the Nations, the political elites have been trying to eradicate war as a means of action on the world stage. They did not succeed. The Second World War is the greatest ever fought; it is followed by the Cold War, silent confrontation between two superpowers. When the latter ended, scholars hoped that the end of history was approaching, with a world in which liberal democracies would never wage war to each other . But this proved to be vane, too, and we are facing an epoch in which the war takes new and unexpected forms. But are they really new and unexpected? Is terrorism a type of war never encountered in history?  
         
     
         
         
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