Winning the War on War : The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
ISBN: 9780452298590 | 0452298598
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Pub. Date: 7/31/2012
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Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong. Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn't just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is crucial as America shifts to an era of lower military budgets and operations. Preeminent scholar of international relations, Joshua Goldstein, definitiv... MORE
| Prologue | p. ix |
| War on the Street Outside: Beirut, 1980 | p. 1 |
| The Long-Term Trend: A Trip in a Time Machine, 2011 to Prehistoric Times | p. 12 |
| Palestine to Congo: The Invention of Peacekeeping, 1947-61 | p. 45 |
| Angola to Mozambique: Failures and Successes of the Early 1990s | p. 73 |
| The Kofi Annan Reforms: Consolidation and Expansion, 1997-2006 | p. 109 |
| The Sierra Leone Model: Multidimensional ... MORE | p. 136 |
| The Unarmy: Nonmilitary Forces Supporting Peace | p. 177 |
| Peace Movements: If You Want Peace, Work for Peace | p. 203 |
| Assessing Progress: Is Peace Increasing since 1945? | p. 229 |
| Three Myths: Finding the Truth When Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong | p. 253 |
| Wars of the World: The Fires Still Smoldering | p. 275 |
| What We Can Do: A New Global Identity | p. 308 |
| Notes | p. 329 |
| References | p. 353 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 373 |
| Index | p. 375 |
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