Abstract
The State, War and the State of War has been published in 1996. Its author, Kalevi J. Holsti is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. This book is based on his previous study: Peace and War: armed conflicts and International Order 1648-1989. The work was published just after the end of the war in Bosnia and the conclusion of Dayton Agreements. To some extent, it reflects the issues the world was dealing with at that time: the difficult construction of a new international order after the collapse of the Soviet Union and a new proliferation of states since the end of de-colonization.
