Part 1 Democracy: Bellicose, Imperial, or Idealistic?; Chapter 1 Democratic Warfare, Ancient and Modern, Victor D. Hanson; Chapter 2 The American Imperium, Ronald Steel; Chapter 3 The American Empire: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Robert Kagan; Part2 Categorizing Wars: Civil or Hegemonic, Decisive or Cyclical?; Chapter 4 When SParta Is SParta but Athens Isn't Athens: Democracy and the Korean War, Bruce Cumings; Chapter 5 Stalin and the Decision for War in Korea, Kathryn Weathersby; Chapter 6 The Effects of the Peloponnesian (Athenian) War on Athenian and SPartan Societies, Paul Cortledge; Part3 Third Forces, or Shrimps Between Whales; Chapter 7 The Case of Plataea: Small States and the (Re-)Invention of Political Realism, Gregory Crane; Chapter 8 The Korean War and North Korean Politics, Dae-Sook Suh; Chapter 9 The Korean War and South Korean Politics, Kongdon Oh; Part4 Demagogues? or Domestic Politics in Democracies at War; Chapter 10 McCarthyism and the Korean War, EllenSchrecker; Chapter 11 Korea, the Cold War, and American Democracy, Stephen J. Whitfield; Chapter 12 Warfare, Democracy, and the Cult of Personality, Jennifer T. Roberts; Part5 Realism, Militarism, and the Culture of Democracies at War; Chapter 13 Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History, Josiah Ober; Chapter 14 Father of All, Destroyer of All: War in Late Fifth-Century Athenian Discourse and Ideology, Kurt A. Raaflaub; Chapter 15 Characters and Characteristics of Korean War Novels, Dong-Wook Shin;