Quest For Peace

Author : James Turner Johnson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400886746

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James Turner Johnson goes beyond the examination of moral restraints on the occasion and conduct of war to a critical study of the moral thinking that has aimed at its prevention. This scrutiny of the peace issue" in Western society covers nearly two thousand years of history and three traditions of the search for peace: the just war tradition of setting limits to war, the sectarian pacifism of withdrawal from the world and its evils, and the Utopian world-perfecting pacifism that finds the cure for discord among nations in the establishment of a new, more nearly universal, and rightly constituted political order. Revealing the historical depth of all three traditions, the book shows that contemporary "nuclear pacifism" derives from forms of thought that are centuries old. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Nancy E. Krulik
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590412272

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Superman IV by Nancy E. Krulik Pdf

Author : K. Satchidananda Murty,P. V. Narasimha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : East and West
ISBN : 8120201655

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The Quest for Peace by K. Satchidananda Murty,P. V. Narasimha Rao Pdf

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812994933

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To Move the World by Jeffrey D. Sachs Pdf

An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a sustainable peace with the Soviet Union. To Move the World recalls the extraordinary days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his remarkable political skills to establish more peaceful relations with the Soviet Union and a dramatic slowdown in the proliferation of nuclear arms. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, led their nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the two superpowers came eyeball to eyeball at the nuclear abyss. This near-death experience shook both leaders deeply. Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how Kennedy emerged from the Missile crisis with the determination and prodigious skills to forge a new and less threatening direction for the world. Together, he and Khrushchev would pull the world away from the nuclear precipice, charting a path for future peacemakers to follow. During his final year in office, Kennedy gave a series of speeches in which he pushed back against the momentum of the Cold War to persuade the world that peace with the Soviets was possible. The oratorical high point came on June 10, 1963, when Kennedy delivered the most important foreign policy speech of the modern presidency. He argued against the prevailing pessimism that viewed humanity as doomed by forces beyond its control. Mankind, argued Kennedy, could bring a new peace into reality through a bold vision combined with concrete and practical measures. Achieving the first of those measures in the summer of 1963, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, required more than just speechmaking, however. Kennedy had to use his great gifts of persuasion on multiple fronts—with fractious allies, hawkish Republican congressmen, dubious members of his own administration, and the American and world public—to persuade a skeptical world that cooperation between the superpowers was realistic and necessary. Sachs shows how Kennedy campaigned for his vision and opened the eyes of the American people and the world to the possibilities of peace. Featuring the full text of JFK’s speeches from this period, as well as striking photographs, To Move the World gives us a startlingly fresh perspective on Kennedy’s presidency and a model for strong leadership and problem solving in our time. Praise for To Move the World “Rife with lessons for the current administration . . . We cannot know how many more steps might have been taken under Kennedy’s leadership, but To Move the World urges us to continue on the journey.”—Chicago Tribune “The messages in these four speeches seem all too pertinent today.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Jock Covey,Michael J. Dziedzic,Leonard R. Hawley
Publisher : 成甲書房
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1929223676

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The Quest for Viable Peace by Jock Covey,Michael J. Dziedzic,Leonard R. Hawley Pdf

International intervention in failing states that threaten peace and security does not by itself make the world safer. Too often, when intervening forces are unable to change the circumstances that breed violence, the intervention stalls and old animosities reignite. If international intervention is to be effective, its first task must be the attainment of viable peace.As the editors of this groundbreaking volume explain, viable peace is achieved when the capacity of domestic institutions to resolve disputes peacefully overtakes the powerful motives and means for continued violent conflict. Getting to this point quickly demands the careful design and coordinated implementation of four mutually reinforcing strategies to moderate political conflict, defeat militant extremism, inculcate the rule of law, and establish a political economy that reduces rather than ignites conflict.Drawing on their firsthand experience of Kosovo, the contributors all seasoned practitioners and policymakers identify the concrete challenges that must be confronted and lay out the practical steps that must be taken to transform a society habituated to violent conflict into one where peace can eventually be self-sustaining.Conceptually innovative yet profoundly pragmatic, this book will change the way that international intervention is conceived and conducted.Read the review on Foreign Affairs."

Author : Scott M. Manetsch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9004111018

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Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France by Scott M. Manetsch Pdf

This volume presents a fascinating account of the political strategies, religious attitudes, and resistance activities of Theodore Beza and other French Protestant leaders between the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacres (1572) and the Edict of Nantes (1598).

Author : Linus Pauling,Daisaku Ikeda
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Peace
ISBN : 0867202785

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A Lifelong Quest for Peace by Linus Pauling,Daisaku Ikeda Pdf

A Lifelong Quest for Peace: A Dialogue will provided readers the opportunity to get to know Dr. Pauling and Mr. Ikeda, as they seek to provide pointers to help the young people of today solve the problems of the twenty-first century.

Author : Daniel C. Kurtzer,Scott B. Lasensky,William B. Quandt,Steven L. Spiegel,Shibley Telhami
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801465420

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The Peace Puzzle by Daniel C. Kurtzer,Scott B. Lasensky,William B. Quandt,Steven L. Spiegel,Shibley Telhami Pdf

Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations to agreements on an issue that has been of singular importance to U.S. interests for more than forty years. In 2006, the authors of The Peace Puzzle formed the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace, to develop a set of "best practices" for American diplomacy. The Study Group conducted in-depth interviews with more than 120 policymakers, diplomats, academics, and civil society figures and developed performance assessments of the various U.S. administrations of the post–Cold War period. This book, an objective account of the role of the United States in attempting to achieve a lasting Arab–Israeli peace, is informed by the authors’ access to key individuals and official archives.

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739144725

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The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer Pdf

In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals that worked to liberalize the totalitarian Soviet Union and its fellow nations behind the Iron Curtain, and which ultimately brought about the dissolution of those repressive governments. Spencer identifies four political orientations to describe Soviet society: 'Sheep,' ordinary citizens who accepted the undemocratic regime they lived in without challenging it; 'Dinosaurs,' hard-line Communist officials; 'Termites,' including Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers and government; and 'Barking Dogs,' a few hundred dissidents who made 'a lot of noise' protesting, hoping to awaken a grass-roots demand for democracy. The strange rivalry between the Termites and Barking Dogs would ultimately doom perestroika. Spencer's research dispels the widely-held perception that US President Ronald Reagan 'won' the Cold War by standing firm until the Soviet Union 'blinked first.' There are vitally important lessons to be learned from the Soviet period, about how to assist citizens of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes around the world. The irony is that transnational civil society organizations, major sources of the progress in Soviet Russia, are still needed today in authoritarian Russia, under Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, for totalitarianism remains a potential social trap. In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer suggests new ways of building urgently-needed social capital in today's Russia, where democracy has yet to flourish.

Author : Amrik Binapal
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1469763885

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Quest for Peace by Amrik Binapal Pdf

The fast pace of the technological development during the past about two decades, particularly in television and information technology, has put up such an enormous and sudden pressure on the human mind that the man of today has difficulty bearing it. Quest for Peace examines the gap between the reality and the illusions of life that is widening every day. Mans desire for material things has increased to the extent that we are not able to make the right choices and maintain the correct balance in our lives. Science has delivered many wonderful things to us, but we have lost the peace and calm of a less harried life. We are just running without knowing what exactly we needand what we dont need. The moral values that might help to balance the situation seem to have taken a back seat to the fast pace of todays world. In his poetry collection, Quest for Peace, author Amrik Binapal chronicles his innermost thoughts based upon his life experiences with the hope that it might ease the pressure of everyday life for everyone. Work Hard and Stay Humble Only after experiencing Pain and hardship, Do we realize, Peace and its true essence. Only after surviving Destruction and death, Do we understand and appreciate, The real value of life

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : PURD:32754004378679

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The Quest for Peace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dwight David Eisenhower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Peace
ISBN : MINN:31951D035909321

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The Quest for Peace by Dwight David Eisenhower Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210014050783

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The Quest for Peace in Angola by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa Pdf

Author : Balkrishna Singhania
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Gurus
ISBN : 8170172136

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Quest for Peace and Progress by Balkrishna Singhania Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anthony M. Benjamin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780976459071

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Antonio's Quest for Peace - the Enemies of Peace by Anonim Pdf

Antonio's Quest for Peace - The Enemies of Peace is an Art Book with a collection of over 200 fine line ink drawings andcollection of modern spiritual prophecies about words that bring happiness and mental pain.He who hears the words of a prophet, will receive a prophet reward on judgement day.