Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Volume 3Matthew Evangelista Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 529 pages The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with its consequences. |
Contents
Nationalism ethnic conflict and rationality | 3 |
action and identity | 34 |
the case | 75 |
Che Guevaras in turbans | 113 |
African weak states and commercial alliances | 138 |
Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals | 161 |
men writing about | 192 |
PART 7 | 245 |
the promise and perils | 306 |
Antiterrorism and peacebuilding during and after conflict | 338 |
PART 8 | 383 |
Humanitarian intervention and Just War | 401 |
legitimizing hitech | 441 |
Just war theory and the U S counterterror war | 468 |
Unintended consequences | 512 |
Who is the enemy? Scenarios of war in times of globalization | 279 |
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Popular passages
Page 511 - A nation that is boycotted is a nation that is in sight of surrender. Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force. It is a terrible remedy. It does not cost a life outside the nation boycotted, but it brings a pressure upon that nation which, in my judgment, no modern nation could resist.