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Article: Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century.
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- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century by Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight Public Affairs, 2001, ISBN 1891620894, 288 pp, $24.00 (US).
The ghost of Woodrow Wilson, whose presidency encompassed the First World War and its immediate aftermath, has haunted world leaders from his day to ours, Wilson's vision -- of a collective international action to resist aggressive conflict after the carnage of the First World War --failed tragically, As a consequence, over 160 million people died in conflict during the 20th century, making it the bloodiest by far in all of human history.
In Wilson's Ghost former ...