To make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817917180; 9781306707244; 9780817917166; 9780817917142
Subjects: Peace; Foreign relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE; LAW; International; Diplomatic relations
Description: Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts. The author reestablishes early American statecraft's understanding of peace-what it takes to make it and what it takes to keep it. He reminds Americans why our founding generation placed the pursuit of peace ahead of all.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- by Victor Davis Hanson -- Introduction; title: The nature of peace --; title: Peace, civilization, and war --; title: Defensor pacis --; title: Patriot kings --; title: A right to peace --; title: America, not Rome --; title: Washington's peace --; title: Impotence, honor, and war --; title: American geopolitics --; title: What greatness? --; title: Lincoln's peace --; title: Peacefully pregnant --; title: Empire? --; title: Nation, or world? --; title: Pacifism vs. peace --; title: War for everything, and nothing --; title: Cold war --; title: No-win war, no peace --; title: Peacekeeping vs. peace --; title: The war on peace --; title: No peace at home --; title: What can be America's peace?