Temple of Peace : International Cooperation and Stability since 1945

Authors

Ingo Trauschweizer

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Series

Baker Series in Peace and Conflict Studies

Description

This collection raises timely questions about peace and stability as it interrogates the past and present status of international relations.

The post–World War II liberal international order, upheld by organizations such as the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and similar alliances, aspired to ensure decades of collective security, economic stability, and the rule of law. All of this was a negotiated process that required compromise—and yet it did not make for a peaceful world.

When Winston Churchill referred to the UN framework as “the temple of peace” in his famous 1946 Iron Curtain speech, he maintained that international alliances could help provide necessary stability so free people could prosper, both economically and politically. Though the pillars of international order remain in place today, in a world defined as much by populism as protest, leaders in the United States no longer seem inclined to serve as the indispensable power in an alliance framework that is built on shared values, human rights, and an admixture of hard and soft power. In this book, nine scholars and practitioners of diplomacy explore both the successes and the flaws of international cooperation over the past seventy years. Collectively, the authors seek to address questions about how the liberal international order was built and what challenges it has faced, as well as to offer perspectives on what could be lost in a post-American world.

Copyright Statement

Temple of Peace © 2021 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng

ISBN

9780821447321

Publication Date

3-19-2021

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

United Nations, NATO, Cold War, contemporary warfare, international alliances, human rights, détente, Soviet Union, Russia, Putin, postwar order, foreign affairs, foreign relations, international diplomacy, Trump, post-America, nationalism, Ingo Trauschweizer

Disciplines

Diplomatic History | International Relations | Peace and Conflict Studies | Political Science

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Trauschweizer, Ingo, "Temple of Peace : International Cooperation and Stability since 1945" (2021). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 57.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/57