On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace

Our study of the events studied here shows several general observations on the origin of war and the maintenance of peace. First, in the world of sovereign states, discussions on the distribution of power between the two countries are usual, and this competition often leads to war. Another observation is that the reason for seeking more power is not just to pursue security and important advantages. These include higher fame, respect, respect, in other words requiring honor. Because the decisions contained in these requirements are more subjective than the decisions on important advantages, it is still difficult to satisfy them. Other reasons come from fear, usually ambiguous and intangible, not necessarily a direct threat but a further distant threat, not guaranteed.

One of the earliest peace organizations that appeared after the Second World War was the World Peace Council, which was ordered through the Soviet Peace Committee by the Soviet Communist Party. It was derived from the Cominform doctrine proposed in 1947. In 1949, Cominform instructed that peace should now be a fulcrum of the Communist Party's overall activities. Lawrence Whitner, a historian of the postwar peace movement, believes that the Soviet Union promised to promote WPC early in the postwar period, as the Federation was afraid of US attacks and the advantage of US weapons. There is an atomic bomb in the United States, but the Soviet Union has not developed yet.

One of his most interesting books evolved from undergraduate lectures. "Origin and maintenance of peace" published in 1995 comes from his comparative history curriculum. Like this book, there are few historians who have studied the four horrible wars (Peloponnesus War, the Second Poeni War, and World War II) in this course. At the beginning of this war there was no "control" in this war (the Cuban missile crisis of 1962). I do not think any other professor can make that course so enjoyable. For example, in the opening lecture, we compare the methodology of humanities and social science by asking students whether baseball's Ted Williams is a clutch hitter. But not only that, everything is not easy. Discussion of this book is not timid. Kagan considers that peace is not a natural state of mankind. Unless we strive hard to maintain peace, we will fall into war