Abstract
Academe is perceived by many as an ivory tower, a place to which scholars retreat from the real world of stress and strife. To some members of the fraternity, however, it provides a crucial setting in which intellectual resources can be mobilized to attack the great ills that beset the planet—poverty; disease; injustice; and conflict, crisis, and war. To a young Canadian student in the mid- to late 1930s and early 1940s, world politics seemed distant yet compelling. The first awareness from afar was the Spanish Civil War and Munich, symbols of Western self-delusion and surrender, events that were puzzling and troubling then and long after. The years of death and destruction on a cataclysmic scale that followed, World War II (WWII), as evil forces swept through Europe and Asia challenging the foundations of a civilization which, in word if not always in deed, placed a high value on human and national rights, strengthened an emerging conviction that systematic knowledge of world politics could contribute, however modestly, to the restoration and enhancement of these values.
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Brecher, M. (2016). Introduction: Many Paths to Knowledge. In: Political Leadership and Charisma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32627-6_1
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