{"product_id":"stable-peace-kenneth-e-boulding-9780292764484","title":"Stable Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. \u003ci\u003eStable Peace\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Written in straightforward, lucid prose, \u003ci\u003eStable Peace\u003c\/i\u003e will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kenneth E. Boulding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292764480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292764484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Kenneth E. Boulding","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946391699711,"sku":"9780292764484","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3aec37b9-4fc1-40c5-b362-fed5eec7bc19.jpg?v=1681512883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stable-peace-kenneth-e-boulding-9780292764484","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}