Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Essential readings on international politics 12

Well, in this opportunity I am pleased to share with you the complete monumental work (two volumes) by Quincy Wright on war.
Quincy Wright, 1890-1970. 

"War, to be abolished, must be understood. To be understood, it must be studied. No one man worked with more sustained care, compassion, and level-headedness on the study of war, its causes, and its possible prevention than Quincy Wright. He did so for nearly half a century, not only as a defender of man's survival, but as a scientist. He valued accuracy, facts, and truth more than any more appealing or preferred conclusions; and in his great book, A Study of War, he gathered, together with his collaborators, a larger body of relevant facts, insights, and far-ranging questions about war than anyone else has done. Quincy Wright did more than pile up information about war. He developed a basic theory of war." - Karl Deutsch on Quincy Wright's work.
A Study of War (2 volumes).
A Study of War (Volume 1) - Quincy Wright [30.28 MB, PDF]

A Study of War (Vol.2) - Quincy Wright [38.94 MB, PDF]

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