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Apr 7, 2022 · Moyn’s central thesis (while seemingly paradoxical) is relatively intuitive. If war becomes less brutal, both decision makers and the public will raise fewer objections to going to war. If fewer people object to war, then wars will become easier to initiate and harder to terminate. Moyn traces this logic from the nineteenth century, through ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Dr Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, who has written extensively on the subject of whether the world has become less violent since the Second World War, said of the ...
Sep 6, 2021 · A further complication is that war between states has become exceedingly rare; it has been replaced by states fighting insurgents, or states fighting terrorists, or civil conflicts (with states ...
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Feb 24, 2023 · A year into the war, he talks of Russia fighting to defend its "historical frontiers" and "rebuilding peaceful life in Donbas and Novorossiya", spelling out that Ukraine's southern territories are ...
The most famous way of ethically assessing war is to use ‘Just War Theory’; a tradition going back to St. Augustine in the 5th Century and St. Thomas in the 13th Century. Just War theory considers the reasons for going to war (Jus ad bellum) and the conduct of war (Jus in bello). This distinction is important.
Feb 23, 2022 · The old Cold War maxim of "MAD" - Mutually Assured Destruction - still applies. "Putin," said a senior British military source on Tuesday, "is not about to attack Nato. He just wants to turn ...
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Jun 15, 2020 · Study settles the score on whether the modern world is less violent. Posted on 15 June 2020. While the first half of the twentieth century marked a period of extraordinary violence, the world has become more peaceful in the past 30 years, a new statistical analysis of the global death toll from war suggests. U.N peace keeping soldiers.
