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1	We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work more books like this by Professor Jimmy Carter add to wishlist President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The Carter Center, he has studied the complex and interrelated issues of the region's conflicts and has been actively involved in reconciling them. He knows the leaders of all factions in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Aftermath: The Remnants of War more books like this by Donovan Webster add to wishlist Donovan Webster visited sites around the world to investigate the ways in which war has transformed the landscape. The legacy of unexploded bombs from World War I still lives in France. An area 60 miles square on the outskirts of Stalingrad--the scene of one of the most destructive battles in history during World War II--is still littered with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ways of War & Peace: Realism, Liberalism, & Socialism more books like this by Michael W Doyle add to wishlist In the wake of the Cold War, as the international community struggles to accommodate change, the author of this study directs our attention to the classic theorists, Thucydides, Rousseau, Locke and others. He explores their enduring theories, and recommends that they be applied to today's fundamental international dilemmas. Although no one school ... see all copies from $17.45! new only from $28.09! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies more books like this by David P Barash (Editor) add to wishlist This text provides an interdisciplinary sampling of classic articles and short literay selections focusing on the diverse aspects of peace and conflict studies. Readings cover the causes of war and ways to prevent it, the need for peace, non-violence and peace movements, religious inspirations, and future prospects for peace. Each selection is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.49! \| SVS
5	Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace more books like this by Professor Richard K Betts (Editor) add to wishlist Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings that argue about the shape of international conflict in this post-Cold War and post-9/11 era. Contextualized within a broader philosophical and historical context, the carefully chosen and excerpted ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Handbook of Non-Violence: Including an Encyclopedia of Pacifism by Aldous Huxley more books like this by Robert Seeley, Aldous Huxley add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies
7	The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace more books like this by Professor Alan M Dershowitz add to wishlist "The New York Times" bestselling author of "The Case for Israel" takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel today. In addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowtiz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy Carter and other western leaders who would ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another more books like this by Philip Ball add to wishlist Ball shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions--whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict--on our laws, institutions and customs. see all copies from $2.30! new only from $8.11! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Chorus of Stones more books like this by Susan Griffin add to wishlist Illustrates how childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspirations and public personae assume roles in the causes and effects of war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace more books like this by Professor Edward N Luttwak add to wishlist If you want peace, prepare for war. A build-up of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best route to battle. Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows - they exemplify the paradoxical logic that pervades the entire realm of conflict. In this revised and expanded work, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture more books like this by Professor Jimmy Carter add to wishlist The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Jimmy Carter on December 10, 2002, at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Prize for Peace. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss, and the Fight to Stay Alive more books like this by Yvonne Latty, Max Cleland (Foreword by) add to wishlist "In Conflict" takes a rare look at the Iraqi War through the words of those who have fought it. The book features more than two dozen veterans from all military branches, from fighter pilots, nurses, medics, and foot soldiers to prison guards, POWs, and reservists, each accompanied by a compelling photograph. Together they comprise a group ... see all copies from $2.18! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Carolyn Nordstrom add to wishlist Carolyn Nordstrom, a pioneer in war-zone ethnography, gives us an up close view of the shadowy worlds of wartime economics. Money laundering, blood diamonds, gun running - Nordstrom puts faces on each of these. Seeing the faces makes the moral dilemmas of war not simpler, but more realistic. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $15.61! \| first editions
14 view cover	Can Might Make Rights?: Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions more books like this by Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, Rosa Brooks add to wishlist This book looks at why it's so difficult to create 'the rule of law' in post-conflict societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and offers critical insights into how policy-makers and field-workers can improve future rule of law efforts. A must-read for policy-makers, field-workers, journalists and students trying to make sense of the international ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World more books like this by Dr. Bruce Russett add to wishlist By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system: the striking fact that the democracies that it comprises have almost never fought each other. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $32.12! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Women and War more books like this by Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain add to wishlist Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as "Just Warrior" and Woman as "Beautiful Soul" serve to recreate and secure women's social position as noncombatants and men's identity as warriors. Elshtain demonstrates how these myths are undermined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, as well as the moral imperatives of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	War, Peace, & International Politics more books like this by David W Ziegler add to wishlist War, Peace, and International Politics, Eighth Edition, begins by examining a unique characteristic of international relations: war. The text seeks to discover the causes of war by looking at historical cases and moves from these cases to theories about the causes of war. It then looks at a variety of proposals for eliminating war, or, if not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved more books like this by Professor Alan M Dershowitz (Narrator) add to wishlist In "The Case for Peace", Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat, his analyses are clear headed, well argued, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World more books like this by Chester A Crocker (Editor), Professor Fen Osler Hampson (Editor), Pamela Aall (Editor) add to wishlist "Leashing the Dogs of War" receives Outstanding Academic Title Award by the library journal CHOICE. Read the CHOICE review at http: //www.usip.org/newsmedia/ crocker_hampson_all/index.html. Since "Turbulent Peace" was first published in 2001, the international landscape has changed profoundly. "Leashing the Dogs of War" replaces its well ... see all copies from $31.86! new only from $31.86! \| SVS
20 view cover	Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky add to wishlist Middle East Illusions offers chapters written by Chomsky just before the 2000 Palestinian Intifada and up through October 2002, when 9-11 and a prospective U.S. military campaign against Iraq add new pressures to age-old conflicts. The book also includes the full text of Chomsky's earlier book, Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery more books like this by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Jefferson Chase (Translator) add to wishlist Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I--Schivelbusch reveals the myths created to cope with defeat and the steps taken never to be vanquished again. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $3.68! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War more books like this by Glen Stassen (Editor) add to wishlist Enter a new perspective--this profound resource maps a course for individuals, grassroots groups, voluntary associations, and religious organizations to show people how to fan the flames of peace. It challenges pacifists to be peacemakers and war theorists to spell out the resorts that should be tried before the last. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.38! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	War and Our World more books like this by John Keegan add to wishlist These thoughts on war were originally delivered as BBC lectures in 1998. The esteemed military historian Keegan builds his essays around simple questions about the origins of war, whether it is natural, its importance to the state, its effects on the individual, and whether there can be an end to it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence more books like this by Colman McCarthy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	My Hope for Peace more books like this by Jehan Sadat add to wishlist From the former First Lady of Egypt, best-selling author, crusader for women's rights, and widow of the slain Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Sadat, comes a timely, clear-eyed examination of the defining issues of the Middle East. Drawing on their life together and her first-hand knowledge of the recent history the Middle East - history she played ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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