Retreat From Doomsday
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Retreat From Doomsday
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Author : John Mueller
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1990-07-17
Retreat From Doomsday written by John Mueller and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-07-17 with Political Science categories.
Retreat From Doomsday
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Author : John Mueller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-09-01
Retreat From Doomsday written by John Mueller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-01 with History categories.
The developed world has now been at peace for a longer continuous period than ever before. Arguing that this state of affairs is no accident, this book offers a detailed history of public policies and attitudes to war in modern times.
Only The Dead
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Author : Bear F. Braumoeller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Only The Dead written by Bear F. Braumoeller and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international orders--sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the state and the state made war," Braumoeller shows argues that the same is true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within their borders, they can also clash violently with one another, as the Western and communist orders did throughout the Cold War. Both highly readable and rigorous, Only the Dead offers a realistic assessment of humanity's quest to abolish warfare. While pessimists have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to reduce international conflict, optimists are prone to put too much faith in human nature. Reality lies somewhere in between: While the aspirations of humankind to govern its behavior with reason and justice have had shocking success in moderating the harsh dictates of realpolitik, the institutions that we have created to prevent war are unlikely to achieve anything like total success--as evidenced by the multitude of conflicts in recent decades. As the old adage advises us, only the dead have seen the end of war.
The Stupidity Of War
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Author : John Mueller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-04
The Stupidity Of War written by John Mueller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with History categories.
This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.
The Remnants Of War
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Author : John Mueller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
The Remnants Of War written by John Mueller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with Political Science categories.
"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 institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the pattern by which the ancient and formidable institution of slavery became discredited and then mostly obsolete."—from the Introduction War is one of the great themes of human history and now, John Mueller believes, it is clearly declining. Developed nations have generally abandoned it as a way for conducting their relations with other countries, and most current warfare (though not all) is opportunistic predation waged by packs—often remarkably small ones—of criminals and bullies. Thus, argues Mueller, war has been substantially reduced to its remnants—or dregs—and thugs are the residual combatants. Mueller is sensitive to the policy implications of this view. When developed states commit disciplined troops to peacekeeping, the result is usually a rapid cessation of murderous disorder. The Remnants of War thus reinvigorates our sense of the moral responsibility bound up in peacekeeping. In Mueller's view, capable domestic policing and military forces can also be effective in reestablishing civic order, and the building of competent governments is key to eliminating most of what remains of warfare.
Present At The Creation My Years In The State Department
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Author : Dean Acheson
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1987-09-17
Present At The Creation My Years In The State Department written by Dean Acheson and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-17 with History categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize With deft portraits of many world figures, Dean Acheson analyzes the processes of policy making, the necessity for decision, and the role of power and initiative in matters of state. Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office as Secretary of State at the end of the Truman years. Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.
The Fate Of The Earth And The Abolition
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Author : Jonathan Schell
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Fate Of The Earth And The Abolition written by Jonathan Schell and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.
Notes From An Apocalypse
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Author : Mark O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Notes From An Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Self-Help categories.
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future, by the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine. “Deeply funny and life-affirming, with a warm, generous outlook even on the most challenging of subjects.” —Esquire We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there’s an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O’Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization’s collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. What emerges is an absorbing, funny, and deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with what’s ahead.
The Doomsday Prophecy Ben Hope Book 3
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Author : Scott Mariani
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-03-06
The Doomsday Prophecy Ben Hope Book 3 written by Scott Mariani and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-06 with Fiction categories.
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott
The Valor Of Ignorance
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Author : Homer Lea
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-26
The Valor Of Ignorance written by Homer Lea and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with Fiction categories.
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