Stopping wars and making peace : studies in international intervention /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 223 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	International humanitarian law series ; v. 27 International humanitarian law series ; v. 27.
Subject:	Intervention (International law) War (International law) Peace. Intervention (International law) Peace. War (International law) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220958

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Other authors / contributors:	Eichensehr, Kristen. Reisman, W. Michael (William Michael), 1939-
ISBN:	9789047440901 9047440900 1282606182 9781282606180 9789004178557 9004178554 9786612606182 6612606185
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	During most of human history, war was a basic instrument of statecraft, considered, for the most part, a lawful, honorable, ennobling, and even romantic pursuit. By contrast, peacemaking remained a marginal and indeed incongruous interstate activity. A war would end when the belligerents ended it. The experience of the twentieth century a (TM)s two world wars has changed, at least, the official view. The introduction of ever more destructive weapons, the drastic escalation of civilian deaths, and the economic and environmental devastation that modern war brought combined to forge an international.
Other form:	Print version: Stopping wars and making peace. Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009
Standard no.:	9786612606182 10.1163/ej.9789004178557.i-228

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