The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order

Not until the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century did war come to be regarded an unmitigated evil; only after the massive slaughter of two world wards did peace become the declaratory objective of “civilized” statesAuthor Michael Howard has been Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London, Chichele Professor of History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale.