Will War and the Use of Force Become Obsolete in International Politics in the Twenty-First Century?

For elaboration see Legault Albert , The End of a Military Century? (Ottawa, Ontario: International Development Research Centre, 1992), pp. 2–8.

Erasmus Desiderius (1466-1536) Scholar Dutch .

Cited in Legault, note 1, p. 2.

Weber Max , “Politics as a Vocation”, in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology ed. and translated, Girth Hans and Mills C. Wright , New York: The Free Press, 1946.

Clausewitz Carl Von ., On War, ed, and trans Howard M. Paret P. , (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); also Klein Bradley S. , Strategic Studies and World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 39–53.

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For details see Hoffmarn Stanley , “Choices”, Foreign Policy, Fall, 1973, pp. 3–42; and Knorr Klaus . “On the International Uses of Military Force in the Contemporary World.”, In Sonderman Fred A. McLellan David S. Olson William C. , The Theory and Practice of International Relations (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1979), p. 190.

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See. Knorr Klaus , “On the International Uses of Military Force in Contemporary World”, Orbis, Vol. 21, No. 1; reprinted in Sonderman, Mchellan and Olson, note 7.

Ibid ., p. 195.

Ibid .

Some of the best known of such works are Wood David , Conflict in Twentieth Century (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies. Adelphi Paper No. 48, 1968) Blechman Barry M. Koplan Stephen S. , The Use of the Armed Forces as a Political Instrument (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1976); Barringer Richard E. , War. Patterns of Conflict: (Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Instititue of Technology Press, 1972): and Kaye G.D. Grant D.A. Emond E.J. , Major Armed Conflict: A Compendium of Interestate and Intrastate Conflict 1720-1985, Ottawa: Operational Research and Analysis Establishment, ORAE Report 95, 1985.

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Legault , p. 58.

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Ibid ., p. 51.

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This has been hailed as “a momentuous national security achievement for the United States and for all nations”. Cited in Holum, Note 17, p. 3.

For details on the post-Cold War role of the United Nations see Giandomenico Picco, “The U.N. and the Use of Force”, Foreign Affairs, September-October 1994, pp. 14–18.

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For details see Syed Anwar Husain. “Prospect of Peace in South Asia: Politico-Strategic Perspective”. South Asian Survey, Vol. 1, No. 2. July-December 1994. pp. 242–44; and Husain Syed Anwar , “Democracy and Cooperation in South Asia: Interface and the Way Ahead”, paper presented at conference on Democratization and the prospect of Regional Cooperaton in South Asia held on 8-9 November 1995 in New Delhi under the joint sponsorship of the Indian Council for Regional Cooperation (ICRC) and the Coalition for South Asian Cooperation (CSAC).

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