The West, Civil Society and the Construction of Peace

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: A Time for Peace

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   Pages 1-15

3. Imagine Peace

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   Pages 16-42

4. A World Safe for Democracy, 1917–19

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5. The Sinews of Peace, 1944–51

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   Pages 82-126

6. New World Orders, 1989–2001

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7. Conclusion: Ironic Democratic Peace Theory

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8. Back Matter

   Pages 189-208

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The West, Civil Society and the Construction of Peace describes how the challenges of peacemaking following the First and Second World Wars defined the West. In turn, the difficulties in applying the Western recipe for peace to the new security challenges of a globalizing world is threatening to destroy the international community. Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen explains how the values of civil society have held the West together and concludes that 'the democratic peace ' is not a 'law' but a recipe for security.

• democracy
• globalization
• nationalism
• world order

• Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen

MIKKEL VEDBY RASMUSSEN is a Research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen.

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