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 peac…
Read the newspapers, and you'll be convinced war is worse than it's ever been: more civilian deaths, more rapes, more armed conflicts all around the world. But as leading scholar and writer Joshua Goldstein shows in this book, the reality is just the opposite. The commonly quote…
Presents balanced facts about the military-civilian death ratio in modern warfare while explaining how a general decline in armed conflict is revealing the effectiveness of peace.
Presents balanced facts about the military-civilian death ratio in modern warfare while explaining how a general decline in armed conflict is revealing the effectiveness of peace.
A collection of speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, and political cartoons from the American antiwar tradition beginning with the War of 1812 offers the full range of the subject's richness and variety, with contributions from such notables as Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, …
A collection of speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, and political cartoons from the American antiwar tradition beginning with the War of 1812 offers the full range of the subject's richness and variety, with contributions from such notables as Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, …
The first-ever anthology of American antiwar writing: from 1812 to the present, covering the entire political spectrum and the complete history of U.S. wars.
