The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... strong and influential expression in the great philosophical , literary , and artistic works of the eighteenth ... strong enough to curb international war , they must also have been strong enough to curb civil war . Nef believed that ...
... strong and influential expression in the great philosophical , literary , and artistic works of the eighteenth ... strong enough to curb international war , they must also have been strong enough to curb civil war . Nef believed that ...
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... strong and was sometimes threaded with cordite . Civil strife was particu- larly dangerous when a group or interest in the disturbed nation had strong bonds with another nation . Those bonds could be religious and racial ; in the ...
... strong and was sometimes threaded with cordite . Civil strife was particu- larly dangerous when a group or interest in the disturbed nation had strong bonds with another nation . Those bonds could be religious and racial ; in the ...
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... strong powers was safer . To my knowledge no historian or political scientist pro- duced evidence to confirm that a power system of seven strong states was more conducive to peace than a system of two strong states . The idea relies ...
... strong powers was safer . To my knowledge no historian or political scientist pro- duced evidence to confirm that a power system of seven strong states was more conducive to peace than a system of two strong states . The idea relies ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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