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Political Science Intergovernmental Organizations

Hopes and fears

edited by Hanna Newcombe

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Category
Intergovernmental Organizations, Treaties, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888669506
    Publish Date
    Jan 1992
    List Price
    $16.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459726000
    Publish Date
    Jan 1992
    List Price
    $7.99

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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding "bads" and subtracting "goods" from our natural endowment), a horrendous (and increasing) gap between rich and poor within and between nations, explosions of racism and chauvinistic nationalism, increasing use of torture as a police method, totalitarian regimes, repeated episodes of genocide … not a picture of progress toward a better world. And yet, we have not quite lost faith in the human potential for more beneficial and harmonious development.

About the author

Born in Prague, Hanna Newcombe, co-founder of Peace Research Abstracts and Peace Research Reviews, was the recipient of the 1997 Pearson Medal of Peace and was elected a member of the Order of Canada in 2007 for her work in peace research and international relations.

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