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This page provides texts, bibliography and links to studies on Secular and Philosophical ideas and practice of peace. Selections are hyperlinked to the WorldCat online catalog, which provides complete listings of libraries holding this title, links to Amazon.com for purchase and other resources.  A separate section of bibliography addresses Kant’s Perpetual Peace.
 

Texts on Other Websites

  1. •`Abdu'l-Bahá. The Promulgation of Universal Peace. 1912. Project Gutenberg. (Accessed 2/11/08.)

  2. •Allen, James. Works. The James Allen Free Library. (Accessed 2/11/08.)

  3. •Bentham, Jeremy. Essay 4. A Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace. University of Texas. Classical Utilitarianism Web Site.

  4. •Howe, Julia Ward. Works, biography, studies on.

  5. •Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace. Mount Holyoke site maintained by Vincent Ferraro.

  6. •—. Perpetual Peace. The Danish Peace Academy Site.

  7. •—. Perpetual Peace. M. Cambell Smith, trans. & ed. London: Allen & Unwin: 1903.

  8. •Kleingeld, Pauline. “Approaching Perpetual Peace: Kant’s Defence of a League of States and his Ideal of a World Federation.” European Journal of Philosophy 12:3  (2004): 304–25. University of Leiden Website.

  9. •Russell, Bertrand. The Bertrand Russell Archives. McMaster University (Accessed 2/11/08)

  10. •—. Writings. The Betrand Russell Society. Drew University Website. (Accessed 2/11/08)

  11. •Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience. Thoreau Reader. Richard Lenat, ed. (Accessed 8/6/06.)

  12. •—. Civil Disobedience. Berkeley Digital Library. (Accessed 8/6/06.)

  13. •—. Civil Disobedience. Transcendentalists Website. (Accessed 8/6/06.)

  14. •—. Civil Disobedience. Jessica Gordon and Ann Woodlief, eds. Virginia Commonwealth University, American Transcendentalism Web. 1999 (Accessed 8/6/06.)

  15. •Van Dyke, Henry. What Peace Means. New York: Revell, 1919. Project Gutenberg. (Accessed 2/11/08.)

  16. •Veblen, Thorstein. An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation. New York: B.W. Heubsch, 1919. Project Gutenberg. (Accessed 2/11/08).



Texts

  1. •Barash, David P. Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  2. •Bentham, Jeremy. Jeremy Bentham’s Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1927.

  3. •—. Plan for an Universal and Perpetual Peace. London: Peace Book Company, 1939.

  4. •Bly, Carol, Thomas McGrath, and Robert Bly. Peace Works! Saint Paul, MN: Center for International Education, 1991.

  5. •Bly, Robert, Carol Bly, Roy McBride, Jim Northrup, Eugene J. McCarthy, Thomas McGrath, Diego Vazquez, Mickey Chance, David Bengston, and Michael Hazard. Peace Works: Poems, People, Prayers, for Peace. Saint Paul, MN: Center for International Education, 2003.

  6. •Brock, Peter. Liberty and Conscience: A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America Through the Civil War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  7. •Einstein, Albert. Essays in Science. New York: Philosophical Library, 1955.

  8. •—. Ideas and Opinions. New York: Modern Library, 1994.

  9. •—, and Bertrand Russell. Manifesto 50. Ken Coates, ed. The Spokesman, 85. Nottingham, UK: Russell Press, 2005.

  10. •—, and Sigmund Freud, Fritz Moellenhoff, and Anna Moellenhoff. Why War? The Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Chicago: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1978.

  11. •Emerson, Ralph Waldo. War: An Address Before the American Peace Society at the Odeon, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1838. Washington, DC: American Peace Society, 1924.

  12. •Fish, Samuel. A New Year’s Gift to the United States of America: On the Subject of Peace and Union. Springfield, MA: Printed by Henry Brewer, 1801.

  13. •Grotius Society, Desiderius Erasmus, Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Hugo Grotius, George William Knowles, Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, and Hugh H. L. Bellot. Texts for Students of International Relations. The Grotius Society Publications. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1921.

  14. •Hooker, James. The Road to Universal Peace: The Way That Leads to a State of Harmonious Existence Through Individual Freedom. Indianapolis, IN: The Peace Pub. Co, 1924.

  15. •Kainz, Howard P. Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: An Anthology of Classical and Modern Sources. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1987.

  16. •Kant, Immanuel. Perpetual Peace. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1957.

  17. •—. Perpetual Peace, and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals. Ted Humphrey, ed. HPC Philosophical Classics Series. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.

  18. •—. Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History. Pauline Kleingeld, Jeremy Waldron, Michael W. Doyle, and Allen W. Wood, eds. Rethinking the Western Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

  19. •Peabody, Andrew P. Lessons from Our Late Rebellion: An Address Delivered at the Anniversary of the American Peace Society, May 19, 1867. Boston: American Peace Society, 1867.

  20. •Ramsay, William Mitchell. The Imperial Peace; An Ideal in European History. The Romanes Lecture, 1913. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.

  21. •Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, and Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre. A Project for Perpetual Peace. London: Printed for J. Johnson and T. Davenport, 1767.

  22. •—. A Project on Perpetual Peace Rousseau’s Essay. Edith M. Nuttall, ed. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927.

  23. •Russell, Bertrand. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. London: Allen & Unwin, 1967.

  24. •—. Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959. Robert E. Egner, ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

  25. •—. Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language: Critical and Historical Essays. Contributions in Philosophy, no. 87. Schwerin, Alan, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

  26. •—. Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

  27. •—. Has Man a Future? New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.

  28. •—. New Hopes for a Changing World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

  29. •—. Political Ideals. New York: The Century Co., 1917.

  30. •—. Unpopular Essays. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950.

  31. •—. Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.

  32. •Schweitzer, Albert. Pilgrimage to Humanity. New York: Philosophical Library, 1961.



Bibliography

  1. •Adams, David. UNESCO and a Culture of Peace: Promoting a Global Movement. Paris: The Programme, 1995.

  2. •Aiko, Yuichi. The History of Political Theory in International Relations Seventeen and Eighteenth-Century Perpetual Peace Projects in Intellectual Context. 2003.

  3. •Allan, Pierre, and Alexis Keller. What Is a Just Peace? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  4. •Banerjee, Nikunja Vihari. Towards Perpetual Peace. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1988.

  5. •Beck, Sanderson. The Way to Peace: The Great Peacemakers, Philosophers of Peace and Efforts Toward World Peace. Farmingdale, NY: Coleman Pub, 1986.

  6. •Bhattacharya, Srinibas. Long Road to Peace. New York: Vantage Press, 1977.

  7. •Bonta, Bruce. Peaceful Peoples: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.

  8. •Boulding, Elise. “Building a Culture of Peace: Some Priorities.” NWSA Journal 13.2 (2001): 55-59.

  9. •Bove, Laurence F., and Laura Duhan Kaplan. From the Eye of the Storm: Regional Conflicts and the Philosophy of Peace. Value Inquiry Book Series, v. 29. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

  10. •Braun, Reiner, and David Krieger, eds. Einstein: Peace Now! Visions and Ideas. History of knowledge. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2005.

  11. •Capps, Patrick Michael Alan Graham. The Possibility of Perpetual Peace? Analytical Jurisprudence, Moral-Rationalism and the Concept of International Law. University of Bristol, 1999.

  12. •Cauchy, Venant. Conceptions De La Paix Dans L’histoire De La Philosophie. Conceptions of Peace in the History of Philosophy. Montréal: Editions Montmorency, 1987.

  13. •Caws, Peter. The Causes of Quarrel: Essays on Peace, War, and Thomas Hobbes. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

  14. •Chanteur, Janine. From War to Peace. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

  15. •Cho, Yong-sik. White Paper on World Peace: Chouean Irenology. Seoul, Korea: Kyung University Press, 1991.

  16. •Choi, Sang Yong. A Political Philosophy of Peace. Seoul: Korean National Commission for UNESCO, 2000.

  17. •Chopra, Deepak. Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End. London: Rider, 2005.

  18. •Cox, J. Gray. The Ways of Peace: A Philosophy of Peace As Action. New York: Paulist Press, 1986.

  19. •Dietrich, Wolfgang, and Wolfgang Sützl. A Call for Many Peaces. Stadtschlaining, Austria: Peace Center Burg Schlaining, 1997.

  20. •Dorati, Antal. For Inner and Outer Peace. Gerzensee, Switzerland: Araqua Verlag, 1991.

  21. •Doyle, Michael W. Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism. New York: Norton, 1997.

  22. •Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus, and Ron Miller. Educating for a Culture of Peace. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004.

  23. •Furtak, Rick Anthony. “Henry David Thoreau.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005. (Accessed 2/6/08).

  24. •Gertler, Anne. “Albert Einstein, Peacemaking, and Conflict Resolution.” Peace Research Abstracts 38. 1 (2001).

  25. •Gibson, William Harold. “War or Peace: A Deweyan Perspective.” Thesis (Ph.D.). University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

  26. •Glassie, Jefferson Caffery. Peace and Forgiveness. Glen Echo, MD: Peace Evolutions LLC, 2004.

  27. •Goertz, Gary, and Jack S. Levy. Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals. Contemporary Security Studies. London: Routledge, 2007.

  28. •Hamington, Maurice. “Jane Addams.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Accessed 3.1.08.)

  29. •Harries, Richard. Questioning Belief. London: SPCK, 1995.

  30. •Horowitz, Irving Louis. The Idea of War and Peace: The Experience of Western Civilization. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007.

  31. •—. War and Peace in Contemporary Social and Philosophical Theory. New York: Humanities Press, 1973.

  32. •Huggard, William Allen. Emerson and the Problem of War and Peace. Norwood, PA: Norwood Editions, 1978.

  33. •Irvine, A.D. “Betrand Russell.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003. (Accessed 2/6/08).

  34. •Jeong, Ho-Won. Peace and Conflict Studies: An Introduction. Studies in peace and Conflict Research. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

  35. •Kantner, Bruce. “The Enlightenment Decries War: Abbé De Saint-Pierre and Louis Sébastien Mercier.” Honors Thesis. Oberlin College, 1966.

  36. •Kernan, Thomas P. The Future of Peace. New York: Philosophical Library, 1980.

  37. •Krippendorff, Ekkehart, and Håkan Wiberg. “Theories of Peace.” Journal of peace Research 18.2. Oslo, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1981.

  38. •Kushi, Michio, and Alex Jack. One Peaceful World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.

  39. •Maalouf, Jean. “Touchstones for Peace”. Peace Research Reviews 15.2-3. Dundas, ONT: Peace Research Institute-Dundas, 1999.

  40. •Nakhimovsky, Isaac Stone. Perpetual Peace and Enlightened Union: Andrew Fletcher, the Abbé De Saint-Pierre, and Federalism in the Early Enlightenment. Thesis (A.B., Honors in History). Harvard University, 2001.

  41. •Newcombe, Hanna, and Hanna Newcombe. “Further Reflections on Peace.” Peace Research Reviews 13.6. Dundas, ONT: Peace Research Institute-Dundas, 1995.

  42. •Perkins, Merle Lester. Perpetual Peace: Study of an Eighteenth Century Project by the Abbé De Saint-Pierre. 1950.

  43. •Potter, Nancy Nyquist. Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.

  44. •Read, Herbert Edward. Education for Peace. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1949.

  45. •Richards, Howard. Letters from Quebec: A Philosophy for Peace and Justice. San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996.

  46. •Sundell, Carl. Shaw Versus Chesterton: Their Last Public Debate. Worcester, MA: Sund, 1994.

  47. •Taylor, Ruthleen. The Peace Imperative. Toronto: [s.n.], 1991.

  48. •Teichman, Jenny. The Philosophy of War and Peace. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2006.

  49. •Vanier, Jean. Finding Peace. Toronto, ONT: House of Anansi Press, 2003.

  50. •Venkataramiah, M.V. Peace and Humanistic Culture. Bangalore: Indian Institute of World Culture, 1991.

  51. •Weil, Pierre. The Art of Living in Peace Towards a New Peace Consciousness. Findhorn: Findhorn Press, 1994.


Immanual Kant

  1. •Bohman, James, and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann. Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal. Studies in contemporary German social thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

  2. •Bottici, Chiara. “The Domestic Analogy and the Kantian Project of Perpetual Peace.” Journal of Political Philosophy 11.4 (2003): 392-410.

  3. •Braiden, Michelle Katherine. Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas on the Problem of the Possibility of Perpetual Peace. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2004.

  4. •Cobb, Richard M. “Kant, Veblen, and Peace.” Thesis (M.A.). Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1981.

  5. •Covell, Charles. Kant and the Law of Peace: A Study in the Philosophy of International Law and International Relations. New York: St. Martin’s Press; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.

  6. •Easley, Eric S. The War over Perpetual Peace: An Exploration into the History of a Foundational International Relations Text. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

  7. •Gallie, W.B. Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engels and Tolstoy. Wiles lectures given at the Queen’s University Belfast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

  8. •Hayden, Patrick. “From the Law of Peoples to Perpetual Peace.”  International Journal on World Peace 17.2 (2000): 47.

  9. •Held, David. “Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Global Order: Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of Kant’s Perpetual Peace.” Alternatives 20.4 (1995): 415.

  10. •Höffe, Otfried. Kant’s Cosmopolitan Theory of Law and Peace. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

  11. •Kleingeld, Pauline. “Approaching Perpetual Peace: Kant’s Defence of a League of States and His Ideal of a World Federation.” European Journal of Philosophy 12.3 (2004): 304-25.

  12. •—. and Eric Brown. “Cosmopolitanism.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2006. (Accessed 2/6/08).

  13. •Mom, K. “Democratic and Perpetual Peace: Kant and Contemporary Peace Politics.” Theoria 110 (2006): 50-73.

  14. •Pojman, Louis P. “Kant’s Perpetual Peace and Cosmopolitanism.” Journal of Social Philosophy 36.1 (2005): 62-71.

  15. •Puri, Bindu, and Heiko Sievers. Terror, Peace, and Universalism Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

  16. •Randall, John Herman, and Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant and “Perpetual Peace” Two Hundredth Anniversary of Kant’s Birth. Community Pulpit, 1923-1924, no. 19. New York City: Community Church, 1924.



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