The Nature of Peace

The Nature of Peace
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Total Pages: 367
Release: 1917
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781560009733

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The Nature of Peace contains both a theory of politics and a theory of economics in regard to war. Thorstein Veblen's approach to this topic is at once empirical, instrumental, and matter-of-fact. He poses the question, "What are the terms on which peace at large may hopefully be installed and maintained?" Veblen's quest for peace does not rely on grand forces but rather on various conditions, some propitious and some prohibitive. The regime of peace, according to Veblen, is a function of the pacification of both the dynastic state and the modern state, the class struggle, the control of government by privileged business and other propertied interests, and the workings of the market. War and warlike behavior are matters not only of psychology but of both politics and economics, that is to say, matters of the social system as a whole.

The War for Peace

The War for Peace
Author: Leonard Woolf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 100046024X

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In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international power and collective defence against international aggression. He lays bare the issues at stake in the Second World War and draws lines on which a lasting peace could be framed.

War, Peace, and Human Nature

War, Peace, and Human Nature
Author: Douglas P. Fry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2015-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190232463

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"The chapters in this book [posit] that humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but since war is absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a human universal. And counter to frequent presumption, the actual archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war. It does not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic forager band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is little support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved adaptation. Views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking"--Amazon.com.

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674061667

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In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.

A Future in Ruins

A Future in Ruins
Author: Lynn Meskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190648341

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Utopia -- Internationalism -- Technocracy -- Conservation -- Inscription -- Conflict -- Danger -- Dystopia

Between Peace and War

Between Peace and War
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1984-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780801832475

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When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms? When is it brought about by miscalculation? What causes policy-makers to misjudge the consequences of their actions? This book takes up these and other questions in a comparative study of the origins, politics, and outcomes of international crisis based on data from 27 historical cases.

Peace Education

Peace Education
Author: Gavriel Salomon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2005-04-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135636036

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Peace Education: * presents views on the nature of peace education, its history, and relationships to neighboring fields; * examines relevant psychological and pedagogical principles, such as the contact experience, conciliation through personal story telling, reckoning with traumatic memories, body-work, and the socio-emotional aspects of reconciliation; and * introduces an array of international examples from countries, such as Croatia, Northern Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Rwanda, and the United States in order to generalize lessons learned. A "must have" for all those thinking, planning, conducting, and studying peace education programs, it is intended for scholars, students, and researchers interested in peace and conflict resolution in higher education and volunteer and public organizations. Its cross disciplinary approach will appeal to those in social and political psychology, communication, education, religion, political science, sociology, and philosophy.