Wilson's ghost : reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century / Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight.
2001
327.17 M169w 2001
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Title
Wilson's ghost : reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century / Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
1891620894
Imprint
New York : Public Affairs, c2001.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 270 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
327.17 M169w 2001
System Control No.
(OCoLC)45879682
Summary
Woodrow Wilson's vision of a collective international action to resist aggressive conflict after the carnage of World War I failed tragically. Over 160 million people died in war during the 20th century, and in Wilson's Ghost, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight put forth a decisive, multi-faceted action program for realizing Wilson's dream during this century. The plan begins with a moral imperative that establishes as a major goal of foreign policy across the globe the avoidance of war. To that end, enforcement entails only multilateral intervention on the part of the United States; full reconciliation with Russia and China to integrate those nations into relations with the other Great Powers; restructuring the United Nations to greater effectiveness; defining and deterring war crimes; creating UN enforcement; and finally, reducing nuclear danger by eliminating the huge arsenal held by the United States and Russia, and by signing into law the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The authors support their plan with specific, achievable steps that can begin now to ensure a more peaceful 21st century.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
A 21st-century manifesto : choose life over death
Prologue : Wilson's tragedy, and ours
A radical agenda : the U.S. role in global security in the 21st century
Preventing great power conflict : bringing Russia and China in from the cold
Reducing communal killing : intervention in "dangerous, troubled, failed, murderous states"
Avoiding nuclear catastrophe : moving steadily and safely to a nuclear-weapons-free world
Reducing human carnage : an agenda for the 21st century
Epilogue : Listening to Wilson's ghost.
Prologue : Wilson's tragedy, and ours
A radical agenda : the U.S. role in global security in the 21st century
Preventing great power conflict : bringing Russia and China in from the cold
Reducing communal killing : intervention in "dangerous, troubled, failed, murderous states"
Avoiding nuclear catastrophe : moving steadily and safely to a nuclear-weapons-free world
Reducing human carnage : an agenda for the 21st century
Epilogue : Listening to Wilson's ghost.
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