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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... theory was jeopardised or else human nature must have changed . Like most of us in a similar quandary he plumped for his theory . The Second World War , he suggested , was ' manifestly something contrary to Human Nature ' . To reject ...
... theory was jeopardised or else human nature must have changed . Like most of us in a similar quandary he plumped for his theory . The Second World War , he suggested , was ' manifestly something contrary to Human Nature ' . To reject ...
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... theory appear to coexist peacefully alongside contradictory interpretations of war . The theory escapes criticism partly because it is believed to have been proven by an alien discipline . Some political scien- tists perhaps believe ...
... theory appear to coexist peacefully alongside contradictory interpretations of war . The theory escapes criticism partly because it is believed to have been proven by an alien discipline . Some political scien- tists perhaps believe ...
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... theory that an uneven ' balance ' of power tends to promote war . If the theory is turned upside down , however , it has some validity . 4. The evidence of past wars does not support the scapegoat theory and its assumption that rulers ...
... theory that an uneven ' balance ' of power tends to promote war . If the theory is turned upside down , however , it has some validity . 4. The evidence of past wars does not support the scapegoat theory and its assumption that rulers ...
Contents
The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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