Download or read book Purpose and Policy in the Global Community written by B. Russett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few topics are as important in the study of international relations as the causes of wealth and poverty, and their interaction with militarization. Few scholars have contributed more to understanding these issues than Bruce Russett. Here Russett shows the linkages between wealth and conflict both substantively and temporally.