General Article Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?

Topic Selected: War and Conflict Book Volume: 401

Ten years ago, the psychologist Steven Pinker published The Better Angels of Our Nature, in which he argued that violence in almost all its forms – including war – was declining. The book was ecstatically received in many quarters, but then came the backlash, which shows no signs of abating. In S...

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