International Journal on World Peace articles from June 2003

International Journal on World Peace archives from June 2003

The Future of Peace in the twenty first century: mitigating discontents and harmonizing global diversity.(Now Available)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Is peace possible in our time? What kind of peace? Peace among nations? Peace among diverse religious and ethnic communities? Will peace bring an end to citizen's struggles against exploitative governments and tyrannical regimes' wars of...

Why global transformation and not globalization.
June 1, 2003... The international system has undergone dramatic changes during the last 25 to 30 years. Numerous scholars have considered these changes and the resulting consequences through the prism of globalization. Because such an approach suffers from...

Max Stackhouse's concept of religious reason and the plaint of 'the rest'.
June 1, 2003... This article considers the complaint of 'the rest' against Western arrogance in light of Max Stackhouse's account of religious reason, which is used to expose the value-laden assumptions of development theory. By providing a framework to...

Ethical development and the social impact of globalization.
June 1, 2003... Those on the left believe that trade accrues economic power to developed nations causing environmental degradation, unemployment and reduced wages in developing countries. Those on the right believe that trade accrues economic power to...

The US, the USSR, and space exploration, 1957-1963.(Chronology)
June 1, 2003... This article reexamines the political meaning of the Space Age during the administrations of Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. Using the foreign relations papers of the United States and an assortment of other primary and secondary sources,...

HIV/AIDS: menace and metaphor.
June 1, 2003... The social and cultural threat of HIV/AIDS demonstrates how political correctness, cultural and religious prejudices and common sense collide and imperil solutions. The HIV/AIDS menace and metaphor can offer an example of how to combine health...

Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... MANAGING ARMED CONFLICTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha Sriram (eds.) London, Frank Cass Publishers, 2001 241 pages, paper, $24.50 Conflicts have been a scourge of humanity from time immemorial....

Breakdown: the Failure of American Intelligence to Defeat Global Terror.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... BREAKDOWN: THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE TO DEFEAT GLOBAL TERROR Bill Gertz New York: Penguin, 2003 316 pages, paper, $15.00 Bill Gertz has been a defense and national security reporter for the Washington Times for...