Modern news coverage dominated by images of violence and warfare suggeststhat war is a ubiquitous feature of contemporary society. Historians say it hasalways b... » 

Modern news coverage dominated by images of violence and warfare suggeststhat war is a ubiquitous feature of contemporary society. Historians say it hasalways been so and many theorists of international relations argue thatnothing is likely to change. Yet in this timely book Roy Weatherford proposesthat we are on the verge of a profound change in social relations. He foreseesthe end of the sovereignty of nationstates and the warfare between them andthe beginning of the rule of democratically established collectively enforcedinternational law.World Peace and the Human Family analyzes the possibility of achieving worldpeace and cogently argues for the moral and political changes necessary to makeit a reality. The book explains why some geopolitical unitssuch as theformer Soviet Union and Yugoslaviaare fragmenting while otherssuch as theEuropean Community and United Nationsare coalescing and strengthening.Weatherfords argument remains philosophically pragmatic politicallyrealistic and technologically optimistic. He believes that nationalsovereignty and jingoistic provincialism must yield to a world culturespeaking a world language subject to a world government and living as a worldwide familythe human family. «