Product Description: Focusing on post-World War II American foreign policy and its intellectual architect, George Kennan, this volume explores the moral dimensions of realpolitik and the ethical dilemmas posed by present-day politics. Is Kennan responsible for persuading the U...read more

Product Description: The clash between concepts of pacifism and perceptions of citizenship has long provoked fierce argument. Sparked by presentations from life-long pacifist Elise Boulding and political scientist Guenter Lewy, the debate in this volume is passionate and profound, ranging across such issues as the political role of pacifists and the character of American pacifism since World War II...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive, one-volume exploration of the peace and security field, this volume presents detailed investigations of four major approaches employed in the study of conflict and peacemaking.

Product Description: Do the Munich accords of 1938 – the failed attempt of Western democracies to appease Adolf Hitler on the eve of World War I – hold a lesson for the future of NATO? According to a panel of scholars and policy analysts who participated in October 1988 in a Public Workshop at the United States Institute of Peace on “The Meaning of Munich Fifty Years Later,” the answer was an unqualified “yes...read more

Product Description: The current trend for religious leaders and their followers to enter the political arena in the name of religious truth raises the questions that were asked by the founders of the United States. First what kind of acknowledgement and respect can religions, which derive their certainty from divine revelation, give to a liberal democracy which lacks such certainty? Second, what kind of acknowledgement and respect can liberal democracy give to religions and to religon as such? The Kenyon Public Affairs Conference Centre has brought together six specialists to discuss these questions...read more

Product Description: "Crime and punishment" brings together the latest views on the theoretical and practical justifications of punishment for crime. This collection of chapter presented at a PACC symposium primarily offers a retributivist view but shows that retributivism is a possible position for civil libertarians as well as conservatives...read more

Product Description: Book by Baumann, Fred E.