Winning the War on War The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

Name: Winning the War on War The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
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ISBN: 9780452298590

ISBN-10: 0452298598

ISBN-13: 9780452298590

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Authors: Joshua S. Goldstein

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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, definitively illustrates how decades of effort by humanitarian aid agencies, popular movements—and especially the United Nations—have made a measureable…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.03" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Joshua S. Goldstein, is an associate of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and a leading expert on war. His books include International Relations and War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. He lives in Amherst, MA.



Prologue



War on the Street Outside: Beirut, 1980



The Long-Term Trend: A Trip in a Time Machine, 2011 to Prehistoric Times



Palestine to Congo: The Invention of Peacekeeping, 1947-61



Angola to Mozambique: Failures and Successes of the Early 1990s



The Kofi Annan Reforms: Consolidation and Expansion, 1997-2006



The Sierra Leone Model: Multidimensional Peace Operations, 1998-2011



The Unarmy: Nonmilitary Forces Supporting Peace



Peace Movements: If You Want Peace, Work for Peace



Assessing Progress: Is Peace Increasing since 1945?



Three Myths: Finding the Truth When Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong



Wars of the World: The Fires Still Smoldering



What We Can Do: A New Global Identity


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Index