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1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-354) and index. |
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Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. What is peace? -- Idealism and realism -- New wars -- Defining terms -- What's in a word? -- "Pacifist" Japan? -- Latin American and African traditions -- Pacifism and "just war" -- An outline of peace history -- An overview of peacemaking ideas -- pt. I. Movements -- 2. The first peace societies -- Stirrings -- Social origins and political agendas -- Elihu Burritt : the learned blacksmith --The first peace congresses --The right of self-determination -- Universalizing peace -- The Hague Peace Conference -- Not enough -- 3. Toward internationalism -- Concepts and trends -- The arbitration revolution -- A League of Nations -- Wilson's vision -- The challenge of supporting the League -- Outlawing war -- 4. Facing fascism -- Peace movement reborn -- Pledging war resistance -- Revolutionary antimilitarism -- The Peace Ballot -- Against appeasement -- Imperial failure -- The neutrality debate -- The emergency peace campaign -- Losing Spain -- The end of "pacifism" -- 5. Debating disarmament -- Early reluctance -- Disarmament to the fore -- Challenging the "merchants of death" -- The naval disarmament treaties -- World disarmament conference -- The collapse of disarmament -- Disarmament at fault? -- 6. Confronting the cold war -- Creating the United Nations -- The rise of world federalism -- Cold war collapse -- Militarization and resistance in Japan -- The leviathan -- Speaking truth to power -- 7. Banning the bomb -- The shock of discovery -- Scientists organize -- The Baruch plan -- For nuclear sanity -- The beginning of arms control -- Nuclear pacifism in Japan -- The rise of the nuclear freeze -- God against the bomb -- A prairie fire -- Ferment in Europe -- Who won? -- Lessons from the end of the cold war -- 8. Refusing war -- Vietnam : a triangular movement -- Challenging presidents, constraining escalation -- Social disruption and political costs -- Resistance in the military -- The rise of conscientious objection -- The movement against war in Iraq -- Winning while losing -- Countering the "war on terror." |
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pt. II. Themes -- 9. Religion -- Eastern traditions -- Study war no more -- Salaam and jihad -- Christianity -- Anabaptists and Quakers -- Tolstoy's anarchist pacifism -- Social Christianity -- Catholic peacemaking -- Niebuhr's challenge -- Beyond perfectionism -- The nonviolent alternative -- 10. A force more powerful -- Religious roots -- Action for change -- Coercion and nonviolence -- The power of love -- Spirit and method -- Two hands -- A tool against tyranny -- Courage and strength -- 11. Democracy -- Early voices -- Democracy against militarism -- Cobden : peace through free trade -- Kant : the philosopher of peace -- Human nature -- For democratic control -- The Kantian triad -- The insights of feminism -- Empowering women -- 12. Social justice -- Socialism and pacifism : early differences -- Convergence -- The Leninist critique -- Scientific pacifism -- Peace through economic justice -- The development-peace nexus -- Development for whom? -- 13. Responsibility to protect -- Bridging the cold war divide -- War for democracy? -- Opposing war, advancing freedom -- Human rights and security -- Debating Kosovo -- The responsibility to protect -- Peace operations -- The challenge in Darfur -- 14. A moral equivalent -- The belligerence of the masses -- Peace and its discontents : the Einstein-Freud dialogue -- Nonmilitary service -- Nonviolent warriors -- Transforming conflict -- Human security service -- Patriotic pacifism -- 15. Realizing disarmament -- From nonproliferation to disarmament -- The Canberra Commission -- Sparking the debate -- "Weapons of terror" -- What is zero? -- 16. Realistic pacifism -- Theory -- Practice -- Action -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the 1930s, the Vietnam antiwar movement, and the waves of disarmament activism that peaked in the 1980s. Also explored are the underlying principles of peace - nonviolence, democracy, social justice, and human rights - all placed within a framework of 'realistic pacifism'. Peace brings the story up-to-date by examining opposition to the Iraq War and responses to the so-called 'war on terror'. This is history with a modern twist, set in the context of current debates about 'the responsibility to protect', nuclear proliferation, Darfur, and conflict transformation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Peace.
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Peace. |
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International relations.
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International relations. |
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Conflict management.
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Conflict management. |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cortright, David, 1946- Peace. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 0521854024 9780521854023 (DLC) 2007052881 (OCoLC)182656736 |
| ISBN |
9780511397059 (electronic book) |
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0511397054 (electronic book) |
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9780511812675 (electronic book) |
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0511812671 (electronic book) |
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0511399693 |
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9780511399695 |
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0521854024 (hardback) |
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9780521854023 (hardback) |
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9780511399695 |
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0521670004 (paperback) |
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9780521670005 (paperback) |
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