11. "Dead Wrong? Battle Deaths, Military Medicine, and Exaggerated Reports of War's Demise"
- Author:
- Tanisha M. Fazel
- Publication Date:
- 04-2014
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- International Security
- Institution:
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
- Abstract:
- Several recent books argue that war is on the decline. In Winning the War on War, for example, Joshua Goldstein lauds the recent successes of the peacemaking community in countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker writes that not only war but violence in general has become much less common, as the civilizing forces of literacy and modern government have tempered our baser instincts and allowed our "better angels" to prevail.
- Topic:
- International Relations, Security, and War
- Political Geography:
- United States, Middle East, and East Asia