The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

著者 : MichaelHoward

• Yale University Press (2001年2月8日発売)

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[おちょうさんの感想 · 2012年3月21日]

War is as old as human being. War has been treated as natural incident, while peace is an artificial product made by human being. Therefore, peace is very volatile creature and should be maintained by our enduring efforts. This is the concept of this magnificent book.


In older time, war is seen as a necessity to make order, but after Enlightenment process has proceed until now, we come to think of them as illegitimate and immoral activities. This idea just begun to be instituted after we had experienced two world wars. Now that our planet cannot afford worldwide war anymore, because of the technologies that modernization has developed, we have to look for the seeds of peace and turn them into the order by historical wisdom and experience.


In order to think of peace and its relationship with war ,this book provides us with very concise introduction on invention of peace.