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Only the Dead - The Persistence of War in the Modern Age (Paperback)
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Only the Dead - The Persistence of War in the Modern Age (Paperback)
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A unique assessment that challenges humanity's quest to abolish
warfare. The idea that war is going out of style has become the
conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead,
award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it
shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise,
statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that
the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis
propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key
to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of
humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international
orders-sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to
work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done
in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the
American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the
state and the state made war," Braumoeller argues that the same is
true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within
their borders, they can also clash violently with one another, as
the Western and communist orders did throughout the Cold War. Both
highly readable and rigorous, Only the Dead offers a realistic
assessment of humanity's quest to abolish warfare. While pessimists
have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to
reduce international conflict, optimists are prone to put too much
faith in human nature. Reality lies somewhere in between: While the
aspirations of humankind to govern its behavior with reason and
justice have had shocking success in moderating the harsh dictates
of realpolitik, the institutions that we have created to prevent
war are unlikely to achieve anything like total success-as
evidenced by the multitude of conflicts in recent decades. As the
old adage advises us, only the dead have seen the end of war.
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