Giving Peace A Chance: Is War Really Disappearing?

War is in its two-thousandth year of extinction. It is always being declared dead, a sign of cultural progress, and certainly world wars have declined - since World War II, Europe has enjoyed its long period of peace in its history. But whether or any actual war between nations has declined is debated by political scholars. Nations would like to wage war, they are eager, says Bear Braumoeller, author of a paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association and associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University, but fewer conflicts than in the past are instead because nations have an inability to fight rather than an unwillingness to do so. read more

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