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War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond : the Nobel Centennial Symposium.

At the turn of the 21st Century, the world was immediately gripped by the War on Terrorism followed by the Iraq War. In reflection, the 20th Century was a period marked by tremendous technological and economic progress - but it was also the most violent century in human history. It witnessed two hor...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lundestad, Geir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century (Geir Lundestad & Olav Njolstad, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Norway); Dialogue and Cooperation to Achieve World Peace (Dae-Jung Kim, President, The Republic of Korea); War and Peace in the 20th Century (Eric Hobsbawm, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK); Ideologies and Polities: Liberal Democracy and National Dictatorship in Peace and War (Michael W Doyle, Princeton University, USA); Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa (Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University, USA); Global Inequality and Persistent Conflicts (Amartya Sen, University of Cambridge (UK), and the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences); The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (Joseph S Nye, Harvard University, USA); Beyond Militarism, Arms Races and Arms Control (Mary H Kaldor, London School of Economics, UK); Rivalry over Territory and Resources and the Balance of Peace and War: The 20th Century (Louise Fawcett, St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK); Misperception, Mistrust, Fear (Akira Iriye, Harvard University, USA); The Nobel Peace Prize in Its Next Century: Old and New Dimensions (Geir Lundestad, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Norway). 
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