Which is the more likely path to peace: to focus on the most important obstacle to peace and remove it first, or to begin with some seemingly unrelated but easy first steps and leave more difficult issues for later?If history teaches us a lesson, it seems that beginning with small steps promises...

This paper constructs a matrix of the effects of the economy on military affairs and vice versa. Each cell of the matrix is filled with five research questions that either have not yet yielded conclusive answers, or only partial answers, or have barely been addressed at all in the literature....

The notion of'military strength' must be divided into two different concepts. One is offensive power, the ability to inflict harm on others or to exert threats. This stimulates the arms race and is detrimental to international security. The other is defensive power, invulnerability, the ability...

In voting bodies, when voting weights are reallocated, it may be observed that the voting power of some members, as measured by the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf power indices, increases while their voting weight decreases. By a simple constructive proof, this paper shows that such a “paradox of...

Noting that the cost of war-prevention is much less than that of war and its aftermath, the article discusses options for a United Nations Institute for Mediation, a U.N. Security Insurance Agency, and an International Security Commission. It suggests that just as in the course of history,...