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The Peacemakers: Issues and International Order

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Kalevi Holsti: Major Texts on War, the State, Peace, and International Order

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What is the connection between the end of the great wars and the succeeding pattern of warfare? This essay explores the relationship between the great peace conferences of the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. These great diplomatic gatherings were designed to bring perpetual peace and to avoid forever the wars that preceded them. Which ones were reasonably successful? Which were failures? What elements are necessary for successful results?

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    This text was first published as: “The Peacemakers: Issues and International Order”. This is Chap. 13 of Peace and War: Armed Conflict and International Order 1648–1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991, pp. 335–53. The permission to republish this text was granted on 11 March 2015 by Ms. Claire Taylor, Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8RU, UK.

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  • Holsti, Kalevi J. 1988. “Paths to Peace: Theories of Conflict Resolution and the Realities of International Politics,” in Ramesh Thakur (ed.), International Conflict Resolution. Boulder, Colo. and Dunedin, New Zealand: Westview Press and University of Otago Press, 105–32.

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  1. Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Holsti, K. (2016). The Peacemakers: Issues and International Order. In: Kalevi Holsti: Major Texts on War, the State, Peace, and International Order. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28818-5_10

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