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Is war really in decline?
Posted on 19/08/2011 | No CommentsIt is worth reading an article in Foreign Policy magazine by Joshua S Goldstein on the future of warfare, “Think Again: War”. Writing for an American audience, Professor Goldstein notes that in the past decade there have been fewer wars and fewer deaths in war... -
World peace through world trade
Posted on 16/06/2011 | 1 CommentApparently it is the 100th birthday of IBM, the American computer company, formed through a merger of the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Company of America on 16 June 1911. Its president during the 1930s, Thomas J Watson... -
Proof that peace is not news
Posted on 23/11/2010 | No CommentsAt any other moment in modern European history, the following story would be big news: “Germany to abolish compulsory military service“. A continual theme in the history of Europe is the sheer destructiveness of warfare – one third of the German and Czech populations died... -
The moral case against defence cuts
Posted on 08/10/2010 | No CommentsAmid the arguments about the forthcoming spending cuts should fall, a new argument has been voiced to protect defence spending. It is a moral argument. A letter in the Daily Telegraph on 5 October, from Professor Gwyn Prins of the LSE and three others, argues... -
Albert Einstein: “Nationalism is an infantile disease”
Posted on 19/08/2010 | 1 CommentNationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929) Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good... -
W B Curry: “The Case for Federal Union”
Posted on 14/08/2010 | No Comments“Suppose that, like the States of the USA all states had lost the right to maintain armed forces, the right to do what they like in matters affecting other countries, the right to impose tariffs or interfere with free travel. What a hideous slavery would... -
Obama in Oslo
Posted on 18/12/2009 | No CommentsThe award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama was widely dismissed as premature, a sentiment that President Obama himself acknowledged in his acceptance speech. (Read the speech here.) Furthermore, President Obama also felt it necessary to explain why he could accept the award... -
War is hell (2)
Posted on 25/09/2009 | No CommentsI have written on this blog before about the impact that fighting has on people – how violent acts create a violent culture that spreads within society. This is aside of course from what it actually does to the victims. Now there are news reports... -
Peace and security are not the same thing
Posted on 07/01/2009 | No CommentsOne of the first things I wrote on this website is an article called “Peace and security are not the same thing”. Apologies for my lack of imagination, but I think that lack of imagination s widely shared. The crisis in Gaza is living proof... -
New book: “Federalist Thinking” by Lucio Levi
Posted on 05/09/2008 | No CommentsLucio Levi, Federalist Thinking, Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 2008 Federalist Thinking is a concise and comprehensive account of the development of federalism from its starting point in history to present. The book brings to light the federalist aspect, often forgotten, of the thought...
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