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INSTITUTIONAL RESILENCE AND PEACE In this final issue of International Journal on World Peace, Don Trubshaw introduces the topic of institutional resilience and peace. Given the behavior of social institutions [...]

This issue of IJWP marks the first time that our authors have used a constructivist approach to international relations. Constructivism begins with the premise that international relations are socially constructed [...]

NICHOLAS N. KITTRIE (1926-2019) was a friend and colleague. In the 1980s we became lifelong friends and worked together on many projects including International Journal on World Peace of which [...]

This issue of International Journal on World Peace has three articles related to peacemaking and peacekeeping in Africa. The principles discussed apply to peacemaking and peacekeeping anywhere in the world. [...]

This issue of International Journal on World Peace has three very different articles: one on utopianism and peace, one on the nature of 'enlightenment,' and one on the history of [...]

This issue has two themes: regional peace and stability, and China's perspective on nuclear weapons. Peace and stability are examined in two regions: India and its neighbors to the east, [...]

Norman K. Swazo Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019 Hardcover, 179 pages, $99.95 This book is a detailed interdisciplinary examination of God/god(s) in the Jewish and Christian teachings. The author, Norman K. [...]

INTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF A PEACEFUL STATE The relation of religion to governance is one of the most important yet disputed aspects of the modern state. Should a state merely administer [...]

'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' is a saying that reveals the ambiguity of an emotionally charged word, 'terrorism.' The word 'terrorism' evokes fear in members of the [...]

Social science research methods are able to produce verifiable knowledge about society that is more reliable than the seemingly arbitrary suppositions of religious traditions based on prophetic revelation or sacred [...]

Only people over 75 years of age can remember a world without nuclear weapons--a world before humans could end life on earth as we know it in a few hours. [...]

This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Rome Treaties that created the European Economic Community (EEC). Since the origins of the nation-state system with the Peace of Westphalia in [...]

This issue coincides with the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. In 19th century Europe, there had been a large-scale industrial revolution created with capital investment [...]

Dr. Richard L. Rubenstein, one of the founders of International Journal on World Peace, passed away at his home in Connecticut on May 16, 2021 at the age of 97. [...]

Positive peace is more than the absence of war and more than the absence of structural violence and oppression. Positive peace alludes to a world in which everyone has more [...]

One of the fundamental tensions in the contemporary world has been between traditional societies and modernity. 'Traditional societies' refers to those who are connected to traditional communities or cultures. This [...]

The modern world is still coming to grips with the concept of a nation-state and the degree to which states can be at peace when laws promote the cultural values [...]

'Were people given a choice between a functioning dictatorship and a failing or failed state, the dictatorship would often be seen as the lesser evil.' (1) The Nobel Peace Prize [...]

The articles in this issue of IJWP are related to the cultural consciousness that influences group-on-group violence. The pursuit of group interest with disregard to the interests of other groups [...]

WHY NATIONS FAIL: THE ORIGINS OF POWER, PROSPERITY, AND POVERTY Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson NY: Crown Business, 2012 542 pp., hardcover, $30.00 Why Nations Fail is a book [...]

This issue of IJWP looks at the relationship of violence to what might be called 'maturity of truth,' or personal and cultural wisdom. 'Truth' is both individual and social. It [...]

All three articles in this issue of IJWP are concerned with interest group influence on state policy and the negative effects it creates. In On War, Carl von Clausewitz described [...]

DETERRENCE, DIPLOMACY, AND REFUGEES: THEN AND NOW The world has changed a lot since World War II. Science gave us the nuclear bomb, the internet, and the means to more [...]

The application of systems theory to social development has not been popular in political science for decades. Strategic thinking and conflict resolution have dominated, perhaps because they are employed to [...]

In this issue of International Journal on World Peace, three articles probe the creation of peaceful and legitimate states. Since the rise of modern democracies, people have believed that having [...]

This issue of IJWP has articles that discuss three topics: peace within democracies, the relationship between participation in IGOs and state military spending, and Korean unification. All of these articles [...]

This issue of IJWP looks at contemporary centers of conflict where the goal of protagonists appears to be conquest rather than coexistence. Conquerors insist on imposing their will on others [...]

The article presents the discussion on politics corruption. Topics include misuse of public funds when public officials, legislators, political parties, or states spending money from the treasury being not approved by a consensus of the taxpayers; and political parties, corporations, NGOs, and other groups with money and political influence hijacking the treasury.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including transboundary conservation areas, the Siachen dispute, and the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi's idea of intentional communities as the building blocks of peace.