Professors World Peace Academy

Intro­duc­tion to Sep­tem­ber 2008 IJWP

Glob­al­iza­tion of the world’s econ­omy and the migra­tions of peo­ple for polit­i­cal and eco­nomic rea­sons has caused a col­li­sion of cul­tures within nearly every coun­try. While vast empires have his­tor­i­cally been more plu­ral­is­tic as they con­tain migra­tions of cul­tural groups from one part of an empire to another, twenty-first cen­tury migrations […]

Intro­duc­tion to IJWP, June 2008
This issue begins by dis­cussing the elim­i­na­tion of the effects of colo­nial­ism and the Soviet Union which were each, in their own way, the result of empire-building. The idea of rul­ing over the lands of other peo­ple has been around as long as recorded human his­tory. While it runs counter to […]

Intro­duc­tion to IJWP, March 2008

“What Con­sti­tutes the Legit­i­mate Use of Force?” is a thorny and much debated ques­tion in mod­ern polit­i­cal the­ory and just war doc­trine. Under what con­di­tions is the use of force moral? When is it immoral? How much force is enough? What is exces­sive use of force? Do some types of gov­ern­ments, by […]

Intro­duc­tion to IJWP, Decem­ber 2007 Issue

Many of the key issues of our tur­bu­lent age are pre­sented in this issue of IJWP. It con­tains hints of the out­line of how a post-Westphalian, post-bipolar world is shap­ing up. We have not come close to cre­at­ing a world of peace, but we are learn­ing a few things that I […]