Are We Really Winning the War on War?
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For this course, we will read and discuss Joshua Goldstein’s book, Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide, described as an important contribution to public understanding of international affairs. This study, claiming war has both decreased substantially and become less dangerous, focuses on the role of United Nations peacekeeping as a primary causal factor for this decline. To challenge Goldstein’s thesis, we will also consider some contrary evidence—particularly in the case of America—for example, the writing of Eugene Jarecki and Rachel Maddow. As 2014 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the First World War, or what was often referred to at the time as “The War to End All Wars,” the notion of war being on the decline is an especially timely topic. (The book is available on Amazon, both new and used; the cost for the new paperback edition is $13.55.)
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