Approaches to Peace
Fourth Edition
David P. Barash
Table of Contents
*=New to this Edition
Each chapter ends with Study Questions and Suggestions for Further Reading.
Preface
Introduction: Approaches to Approaches to Peace
Chapter 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 Bacevich
Chapter 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. Fry
Chapter 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 Ahmad
Chapter 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 hooks
Chapter 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