The Invention of Peace
Subtitle: Reflections on War and International Order
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Number of pages: 113
Description: "Throughout history the overwhelming majority of human societies have taken war for granted and made it the basis for their legal and social structures. Not until the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century did war come to be regarded as an unmitigated evil and one that could be abolished by rational social organization, and only after the massive slaughter of the two world wars did this become the declared objective of civilized states. Nevertheless war in one form or another continues unabated.

In this book, a preeminent military historian considers why this is so."--BOOK JACKET.