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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro

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Steven Pinker recommends it
To my list I would add The Internationalists, in which Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro argue that the oft-ridiculed 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war deserves much of the credit for the decline of war after 1945, when the United Nations put it into practice.

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