On Building Peace: Rescuing the Nation-state and Saving the United Nations
Michael von der Schulenburg, "On Building Peace: Rescuing the Nation-state and Saving the United Nations"
English | ISBN: 9462984271 | | pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 9462984271 | | pages | PDF | 2 MB
Only 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the Western-dominated global order is fading and our hopes that liberal democracy would spread and bring world peace are evaporating.
While the West is increasingly preoccupied with its internal problems, threats to global peace have fundamentally changed: wars among nation-states and their alliances, once the dominant scourge of humankind, have almost disappeared and are replaced by a triple threat from intra-state armed conflicts, the failing of nation-states and the rise of belligerent non-state actors. The global peace we felt within our reach in 1991, is escaping us.
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