Conquering Peace: From The Enlightenment To European Union Stella Ghervas Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Politics - Current

A Bold New Look At War And Diplomacy In Europe That Traces The Idea Of Unified Continent Attempts Since Eighteenth Century To Engineer Lasting Peace Political Has Historically Been Elusive Ephemeral Stella Ghervas Shows European Thinkers Leaders Pursuit Fostered Unification Bridging Intellectual History Draws On Work Philosophers From Abbé De Saint-Pierre Who Wrote An Early Eighteenth-Century Plan For Perpetual Rousseau Kant As Well Statesmen Such Tsar Alexander I Woodrow Wilson Winston Churchill Robert Schuman Mikhail Gorbachev She Locates Five Major Conflicts 1700 Spurred Visionaries Promote Systems Europe: Spanish Succession Napoleonic Wars World Ii Cold Each Moment Generated “Spirit” Among Monarchs Diplomats Democratic Ordinary Citizens Engineers Progressively Constructed Mechanisms Institutions Designed Prevent Future Arguing Continuities Ideals Enlightenment Through Nineteenth-Century Concert Nations Union Beyond Conquering Illustrates How Value Shaped Long Before Eu Came Into Being Today Is Widely Criticized Obstacle Sovereignty Its Deficit Seen Long-Range Perspective Peacemaking However This Society States Emerges Something Else Entirely: Step Quest Less Violent Σελίδες: 528 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0330 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm