| Description |
vii, 271 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Approaches to War -- Why War?, Sigmund Freud -- On Aggression, Konrad Z. Lorenz -- Warfare is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity, Margaret Mead -- War and Other Essays, William Graham Sumner -- The Guns of August, Margaret Tushman -- Victims of Groupthink, Irving Janis -- The Causes of War, Michael Howard -- A Structural Theory of Imperialism, John Galtung -- National Images and International Systems, Kenneth Boulding -- Glamorized Nationalism: Some Examples in Poetry -- Redefining Security: The New Global Schisms, Michael T. Klare -- Study Questions -- Suggested Reading -- 2. Building "Negative Peace" -- The Moral Equivalent of War, William James -- Getting to YES, Roger Fisher & William Ury -- Disarmament Demands GRIT, Charles Osgood -- The Conduct of Just and Limited War, William V. O'Brien -- The Game of Disarmament, Alva Myrdal -- The Gift of Time, Jonathon Schell -- Finding the Future: The Rolse of Economic Conversion in Shaping the Twenty-First Century, Lloyd J. Dumas -- International Law, David P. Barash -- The Evolution of United National Peacekeeping, Marrack Goulding -- Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 3. Building "Positive Peace" -- The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold -- Human Rights, David P. Barash -- The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, P. Friere -- An Agenda for Change, Oxfam -- Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.) -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 4. Nonviolence -- Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau -- Letter to Ernst Howard Crosby, Leo Tolstoy -- Conscientious Objector, Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Neither Victims Nor Executioners, Albert Camus -- Ahimsa, or the Way of Nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi -- Civilian Resitance as a National Defense, Gene Sharp -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 5. Religious Inspiration -- The Bhagavad Gita, Hindu -- Tao De Ching, Taoist -- Being Peace: Richt Nhat Hanh, Buddhist -- The Old Testament, Jewish -- The New Testament, Christian -- Holy Disobedience, A.J. Muste -- A Devout Meditation on Behalf of Adolf Eichmann, Thomas Menton -- A Christian's View of the Arms Race, George F. Kennan -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings -- 6. Peace Movements, Transformations, and the Future -- Peace Movements in History, Nigel Young -- Building Utopias in History, Elise Boulding -- On Humane Governance, Richard Falk -- Sexism and the War System, Betty Reardon -- The Politics of Responsibility, Vaclav Havel -- A Few Poetic Visions -- Study Questions -- Suggested Readings |
| Notes |
Title page dated: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International relations.
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Peace movements.
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Peace.
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| Author |
Barash, David P.
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| LC no. |
98027847 |
| ISBN |
0195123859 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0195123867 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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