Sticks & stones : living with uncertain wars /
Albert Einstein famously remarked that he did not know what weapons would be used in World War III, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars, government officials, politicians, journalists, and statesmen examine what can be learned fr...
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University of Massachusetts Press in association with John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Understanding the World as We Have Known It; What Have We Learned from the Wars of the Twentieth Century?; The Link between Poverty and Violent Conflict; The Costs of Covert Warfare: Airpower, Drugs, and Warlords in the Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy; Global Uncertainties; The War on Terror; Islam and the West: At the Crossroads; Transitions from Terrorism to Modernity: Linking External and Internal Dimensions of Change; Whose Values? Whose Justice?; From Just War to Just Intervention.
- The Responsibility to ProtectHuman Rights and the International Criminal Court; Cruel Science: CIA Torture and U.S. Foreign Policy; Shaping a New World; Globalization: New Challenges; The United Nations and War in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; The Role of the United Nations in a Unipolar World; Peace Building in an Inseparable World; Contributors; Contributors; Back Cover.