| Description |
vii, 271 pages ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Title page dated: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Why war? / Sigmund Freud -- On aggression / Konrad Z. Lorenz -- Warfare is only an invention - not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead -- War and other essays / William Graham Sumner -- The guns of August / Barbara Tuchman -- Victims of groupthink / Irving Janis -- The causes of war / Michael Howard -- A structural theory of imperialism / Johan Galtung -- National images and international systems / Kenneth Goulding -- Glamorized nationalism: some examples in poetry -- |
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Redefining security: the new global schisms / Michael T. Klare -- The moral equivalent of war / William James -- Getting to YES / Roger Fisher and William Ury -- Disarmament demands GRIT / Charles Osgood -- The conduct of just and limited war / William V. O'Brien -- The game of disarmament / Alva Myrdal -- The gift of time / Jonathan Schell -- Finding the future: the role of economic conversion in shaping the twenty-first century / Lloyd J. Dumas -- International law / |
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David P. Barash -- The evolution of United Nations peacekeeping / Marrack Goulding -- Perpetual peace / Immanuel Kant -- The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- The pedagogy of the oppressed / P. Freire -- Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Human rights / David P. Barash -- An agenda for change / Oxfam -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby / Leo Tolstoy -- Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- |
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Neither victims nor executioners / Albert Camus -- Ahimsa, or the way of nonviolence / Mohandas Gandhi -- Civilian resistance as a national defense / Gene Sharp -- The Bhagavad Gita: Hindu -- Being peace / Thich Nhat Hanh: Buddhist -- Tao De Ching: Taoist -- The Old Testament: Jewish -- The New Testament: Christian -- Holy disobedience / A. J. Muste -- A devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann / Thomas Merton -- A Christian's view of the arms race / George F. |
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Kennan -- Peace movements in history / Nigel Young -- Building utopias in history / Elise Boulding -- On humane governance / Richard Falk -- Sexism and the war system / Betty Reardon -- The politics of responsibility / Vaclav Hável -- A few poetic visions. |
| Subject |
Peace.
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International relations.
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| Added Author |
Barash, David P.
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| ISBN |
0195123859 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0195123867 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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