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The institutions of the ancient republics, hindering individual liberty, are not admissible in modern societies. Individuals have rights that society must respect. We must not want to go back. "Since we are in modern times, I want freedom that is proper in modern times." Political freedom is the guarantee; political freedom is therefore ...
Second supplement: "A secret article for perpetual peace" Appendix I.—"On the disagreement between morals and politics with reference to perpetual peace" Appendix II.—"Concerning the harmony of politics with morals according to the transcendental idea of public right" Kant's essay in some ways resemble modern democratic peace theory.
Peace was forged through diplomacy in the form of royal marriages, both in the distant past and in modern times. Two early examples of royal marriages being used to establish diplomatic relations are Hermodike I, who married the king of Phrygia around 800 BCE, [7] and Hermodike II, who married the king of Lydia around 600 BCE. [8]
Peace and conflict studies is both a pedagogical activity, in which teachers transmit knowledge to students; and a research activity, in which researchers create new knowledge about the sources of conflict. [3] Peace and conflict studies entails understanding the concept of peace which is defined as political condition that ensures justice and ...
The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response is a 1983 pastoral letter of the American Catholic bishops addressing the issue of war and peace in a nuclear age. It reviewed the Catholic Church's teachings about peace and war, reaffirmed the just war theory as the main principles for evaluating the use of military force, acknowledged the legitimacy of nonviolence as an alternative ...
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century is a 2004 book by Thomas P.M. Barnett based around an earlier article he wrote for Esquire magazine. It outlines a new grand strategy for American foreign policy .
Peace journalism is a style and theory of reporting that aims to treat stories about war and conflict with balance, in contrast to war journalism, which peace journalism advocates say display a bias toward violence. The theory proposes practical methods for correcting biases in stories appearing in the mainstream and alternative media, and ...
Samuel P. Huntington wrote a 1993 essay, The Clash of Civilizations, in direct response to The End of History; he then expanded the essay into a 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. In the essay and book, Huntington argued that the temporary conflict between ideologies is being replaced by the ancient conflict ...