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Meanwhile, effective statecraft is conspicuously lacking. Institutions have failed to adapt. No one today would design a UN Security Council that looked like the current one, yet real reform is impossible, because those who would lose influence block any changes. Efforts to build effective frameworks to deal with the challenges of globalization, in

If a people are free to initiate warfare, sue for peace when they lose, then expect to be treated at the negotiating table as the moral equals of those they attacked, there will be little disincentive to aggression. Why not start a war?

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A origem do pensamento pacifista nas Relações Internacionais remonta às ideias de Thomas More (1478-1535). More foi enviado por Henrique VIII a Flandres como embaixador para defender os interesses dos comerciantes de Londres e abrandar a briga entre o monarca inglês e o príncipe de Castela, que havia herdado os Países Baixos. O trabalho seminal de

In the end, Paris was saved by the actions of five men: Model, who ignored Hitler’s order to defend the city and moved Army Group B north to the Marne and the Somme; von Choltitz, who reached out to the Resistance and disobeyed the Führer’s instruction to demolish the city; Leclerc, who moved more than a hundred miles in two days and provided a mas

For centuries, private attorneys have molded and adapted these legal modules to a changing roster of assets and have thereby enhanced their clients’ wealth. And states have supported the coding of capital by offering their coercive law powers to enforce the legal rights that have been bestowed on capital.