Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of US Peace and Antiwar Movements

摘要

For many centuries, war was a game rulers played. Peace movements, unimaginable for most of human history, would have been seen as a gross interference with princely power and an attempt to stop rulers pursuing the purpose for which they existed: the aggrandizement of their royal house. The attempts to restrain the savagery of war by Aquinas, by Islamic law and in Grotius's work On the Law of War & Peace (1625) were wholly disregarded.