Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History

by Petra Goedde

Book Overview

During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019537083X
• ISBN13: 9780195370836
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"