Peace : a history of movements and ideas / David Cortright.

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. What is peace?
Idealism and realism
New wars
Defining terms
What's in a word?
"Pacifist" Japan?
Latin American and African traditions
Pacifism and "just war"
An outline of peace history
An overview of peacemaking ideas
pt. I. Movements
2. The first peace societies
Stirrings
Social origins and political agendas
Elihu Burritt : the learned blacksmith
The first peace congresses
The right of self-determination
Universalizing peace
The Hague Peace Conference
Not enough
3. Toward internationalism
Concepts and trends
The arbitration revolution
A League of Nations
Wilson's vision
The challenge of supporting the League
Outlawing war
4. Facing fascism
Peace movement reborn
Pledging war resistance
Revolutionary antimilitarism
The Peace Ballot
Against appeasement
Imperial failure
The neutrality debate
The emergency peace campaign
Losing Spain
The end of "pacifism"
5. Debating disarmament
Early reluctance
Disarmament to the fore
Challenging the "merchants of death"
The naval disarmament treaties
World disarmament conference
The collapse of disarmament
Disarmament at fault?
6. Confronting the cold war
Creating the United Nations
The rise of world federalism
Cold war collapse
Militarization and resistance in Japan
The leviathan
Speaking truth to power
7. Banning the bomb
The shock of discovery
Scientists organize
The Baruch plan
For nuclear sanity
The beginning of arms control
Nuclear pacifism in Japan
The rise of the nuclear freeze
God against the bomb
A prairie fire
Ferment in Europe
Who won?
Lessons from the end of the cold war
8. Refusing war
Vietnam : a triangular movement
Challenging presidents, constraining escalation
Social disruption and political costs
Resistance in the military
The rise of conscientious objection
The movement against war in Iraq
Winning while losing
Countering the "war on terror"


pt. II. Themes
9. Religion
Eastern traditions
Study war no more
Salaam and jihad
Christianity
Anabaptists and Quakers
Tolstoy's anarchist pacifism
Social Christianity
Catholic peacemaking
Niebuhr's challenge
Beyond perfectionism
The nonviolent alternative
10. A force more powerful
Religious roots
Action for change
Coercion and nonviolence
The power of love
Spirit and method
Two hands
A tool against tyranny
Courage and strength
11. Democracy
Early voices
Democracy against militarism
Cobden : peace through free trade
Kant : the philosopher of peace
Human nature
For democratic control
The Kantian triad
The insights of feminism
Empowering women
12. Social justice
Socialism and pacifism : early differences
Convergence
The Leninist critique
Scientific pacifism
Peace through economic justice
The development-peace nexus
Development for whom?
13. Responsibility to protect
Bridging the cold war divide
War for democracy?
Opposing war, advancing freedom
Human rights and security
Debating Kosovo
The responsibility to protect
Peace operations
The challenge in Darfur
14. A moral equivalent
The belligerence of the masses
Peace and its discontents : the Einstein-Freud dialogue
Nonmilitary service
Nonviolent warriors
Transforming conflict
Human security service
Patriotic pacifism
15. Realizing disarmament
From nonproliferation to disarmament
The Canberra Commission
Sparking the debate
"Weapons of terror"
What is zero?
16. Realistic pacifism
Theory
Practice
Action
Bibliography
Index.