Wilson's Ghost

Reducing The Risk Of Conflict, Killing, And Catastrophe In The 21st Century

By: James Blight, Robert McNamara

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Paperback | 1 June 2003 | Edition Number 1

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With Wilson's Ghost, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight deliver an impassioned plea and a decisive and multi-faceted program for making the 21st century a more peaceful century than the last. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the war that has followed, have made their argument even more imperative. In a provocative synthesis of the pragmatic, historical, and philosophical arguments for avoiding war and achieving a sustainable peace, McNamara and Blight put forth a plan for realizing Woodrow Wilson's dream. The plan begins with a moral imperative that establishes the reduction of human carnage as a major goal of foreign policy across the globe, and details the necessity of adopting new policies to support that goal.

McNamara and Blight argue that now is the time for a radical approach to reducing the risk of human carnage, and they demonstrate why we cannot afford to fail in this effort.

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Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xi
A Note from Robert McNamara	p. xiii
A 21st-Century Manifesto: Choose Life over Death	p. xvii
Prologue: Wilson's Tragedy, and Ours	p. 3
A Radical Agenda: The U.S. Role in Global Security in the 21st Century	p. 17
Preventing Great Power Conflict: Bringing Russia and China in from the Cold	p. 59
Reducing Communal Killing: Intervention in "Dangerous, Troubled, Failed, Murderous States"	p. 113
Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe: Moving Steadily and Safely to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World	p. 169
Reducing Human Carnage: An Agenda for the 21st Century	p. 217
Epilogue: Listening to Wilson's Ghost	p. 227
Afterword to the Paperback Edition: Wilson's Ghost in the Post-9/11 World	p. 231
Notes	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 303
About the Authors	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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