Peace

A History of Movements and Ideas

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23399708
AutoresDavid Cortright (0009-0009-4616-4805, University of Notre Dame, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Data de publicação2008-04-24
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPeace (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511812675
OpenAlexW4232235480
Open LibraryOL34476478M
ISBN9780511812675
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas52

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.

Democracy · Disarmament · Human rights · Internationalism (politics) · Opposition (politics) · Peace movement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law