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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mueller, John E.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.