The remnants of war /
War ... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the instituti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Cornell studies in security affairs.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The decline of war, the persistence of warfare
- Criminal and disciplined warfare
- The control of war and the rise of war aversion
- World War I as a watershed event
- World War II as a reinforcing event
- War and conflict during the Cold War
- Civil war and terrorism after the Cold War
- Ordering the new world
- The prospects for policing wars
- The decline of war: explanations and extrapolations.