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De jure belli ac pacis, title page from the first edition of 1625. De jure belli ac pacis, title page from the second edition of 1631.. De iure belli ac pacis (English: On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 book written by Hugo Grotius on the legal status of war that is regarded as a foundational work in international law.
George Weigel is a prominent Catholic political and social author who serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.In his book Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace, published in 1987, Weigel defines tranquillitas ordinis as the peace of "dynamic and rightly ordered political community" and ...
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (German: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf ) is a 1795 book authored by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant . [ 1 ] In the book, Kant advances ideas that have subsequently been associated with democratic peace , commercial peace , and institutional peace .
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
The Spirit of Law (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix [1]), also known in English as The Spirit of [the] Laws, is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law by Montesquieu, published in 1748. [2]
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644. The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, Discussed in a Conference between Truth and Peace is a 1644 book about government force written by Roger Williams, the founder of Providence Plantations in New England and the co-founder of the First Baptist Church in America.
Jeymes Samuel’s controversial, “The Book of Clarence” film sparks conversation about acknowledging the divine in ourselves and others. “Notes on […] The post ‘Peace to the God ...
Christopher Mitchell described the book as "the clearest (and in many senses the most honest) exposition of the objectivist position" in peace studies. [12] Reviewing the book in Social Science Quarterly, Larry D. Adams described Curle's practical rather than scholarly approach as the book's greatest strength or weakness, depending on the reader's disposition, and suggested that policymakers ...