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Approaches to Peace -  Barash

Approaches to Peace

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2017 | 4th edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-063759-0 (ISBN)
CHF 64,95 inkl. MwSt
Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies, fourth edition, provides a unique and interdisciplinary sampling of key articles focusing on the diverse facets of peace and conflict studies. Featuring both classic and contemporary work, it enables students to read highly influential articles while also introducing them to the most current perspectives in the field. Timeless classics from Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau are included alongside contemporary pieces by illustrious contributors including Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Vandana Shiva, and Pope Francis.NEW TO THIS EDITION:Updated to address current concerns, featuring ten new readings on resource scarcity and climate change; disarmament and employment; reforming the UN; jihad; Christianity and environmentalism; globalism; feminist politics; non-violence; empire versus democracy; and the human cost of economic growth.A new preface reflecting on the importance of peace studies in the age of Trump.The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.

David P. Barash - Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington.

Introduction: Approaches to Approaches to PeaceChapter 1. Understanding War Why War?: Sigmund Freud Warfare Is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity: Margaret Mead War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning: Chris Hedges War and Other Essays: William Graham Sumner Victims of Groupthink: Irving Janis The Causes of War: Michael Howard National Images and International Systems: Kenneth Boulding The Clash of Civilizations: Samuel P. Huntington * How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion: Michael Klare Battlefields of the Future: Peter W. Singer The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking Twentieth Century Wars: Andrew BacevichChapter 2. Building "Negative Peace" The Moral Equivalent of War: William James Getting to Yes: Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton Disarmament Demands GRIT: Charles Osgood Ten Nuclear Myths: David Krieger and Angela McCrackien A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn A Powerful Peace: Jonathan Schell * Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Jobs for All: Seymour Melman International Law: David P. Barash Catholic Answers: Just War Doctrine * Reforming the UN for the 21st Century: Vijay Mehta Violence Vanquished: Steven Pinker Life without War?: Douglas P. FryChapter 3. Responding to Terrorism The Evil Scourge of Terrorism: Reality, Construction, Remedy: Noam Chomsky Terrorism: Theirs and Ours: Eqbal Ahmad The U.S. Response to Terrorism: Haviland Smith Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism: Robert Pape * The True Spirit of Jihad: Sarah AhmadChapter 4. Building "Positive Peace" The Land Ethic: Aldo Leopold * Speech to the United Nations, 2015: Pope Francis * How to Judge Globalism: Amartya Sen Human Rights: David P. Barash Letter from a Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr. * Feminist Politics: Where We Stand: bell hooksChapter 5. Nonviolence Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby: Leo Tolstoy Conscientious Objector: Edna St. Vincent Millay Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus * The Gospel of Nonviolence: Mohandas Gandhi Seeking a Solution to the Problem of War: Gene Sharp Soft Power: Joseph S. Nye Jr.Chapter 6. Peace Movements, Transformation, and the Future On Humane Governance: Richard Falk Sexism and the War System: Betty Reardon A Human Approach to World Peace: Dalai Lama * Empire v. Democracy--Why Nemesis Is at Our Door: Chalmers Johnson No Future without Forgiveness: Desmond Tutu World Government?: David P. Barash * How Economic Growth Has Become Antilife: Vandana Shiva Antiwar Activists, Where Are You?: Victoria A. Bonney Index:

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 640 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-19-063759-5 / 0190637595
ISBN-13 978-0-19-063759-0 / 9780190637590
Zustand Neuware
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