The European anarchy G Lowes 18621932 Dickinson Books
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The European anarchy G Lowes 18621932 Dickinson Books
* I downloaded this with a virtual pile of other free ebook "classics" that I've been working my way through and although I don't dare to think I understood every bit of history or politics in this tract, and since there seem to be no other reviews anywhere, I felt a slight bit of duty to attempt one here, limited though it may be."The European Anarchy" is a short tract written after what was then the greatest calamity in the history of the world, WWI. Dickinson lays equal blame upon England and other European powers for the Great War, not just Germany, as the Treaty of Versailles unjustly did. This universal guilt he attributes to a Hobbesian atmosphere among sovereign states that makes war an inevitable necessity where the strong are continually torn down from their mountains (as well as the feeling among every nation involved that war was thrust upon them against their will). This process he attributes to a "European Anarchy" and calls it more specifically, "Machiavellianism." He points to its arrival as coinciding with the birth of the modern sovereign state, sometime at the end of the 1400's, in which the state became both the end and means to itself, existing only to perpetuate the state. Dickinson was himself a very frustrated pacifist and maintained a hope in the good nature of individual people to overcome the evil tendencies of the states.
Having formulated his blame, Dickinson was still working out his solution to the cause of continuous European wars (interrupted only by periods of peace which were really just "latent war"). He does however begin to make suggestions that could counter the nature of Leviathan. Chief among them was to make the foreign policies of nations as democratic as domestic policies, in which nation-states were to relinquish a portion of their sovereignty in favor of a socialist restructuring into one international body. From this, Dickinson has been credited as the primary thinker behind the formation of the League of Nations.
Ironically, the "peace" he envisioned by a shared authority could only be enforced through the use of force and he merely is supplanting inevitable international wars for the inevitable national ones. It also didn't address the problem we see today in the League of Nation's successor, the UN, which can be manipulated and dominated by the stronger members for purposes of advancement of the individual state.
I'll admit to skipping paragraphs here and there and to skimming entire sections that I thought I had a grasp on but I don't think I lost any comprehension of his ideas. I would ordinarily have added this to the precarious towering stack of political utopian literature if it were not for the fact that the book also contains a great deal of contemporary insight into the characteristics of nations and the individual peoples that populated them at the turn of the 20th century; this I think saved it from being too dry a read.
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The European anarchy G Lowes 18621932 Dickinson Books Reviews
* I downloaded this with a virtual pile of other free ebook "classics" that I've been working my way through and although I don't dare to think I understood every bit of history or politics in this tract, and since there seem to be no other reviews anywhere, I felt a slight bit of duty to attempt one here, limited though it may be.
"The European Anarchy" is a short tract written after what was then the greatest calamity in the history of the world, WWI. Dickinson lays equal blame upon England and other European powers for the Great War, not just Germany, as the Treaty of Versailles unjustly did. This universal guilt he attributes to a Hobbesian atmosphere among sovereign states that makes war an inevitable necessity where the strong are continually torn down from their mountains (as well as the feeling among every nation involved that war was thrust upon them against their will). This process he attributes to a "European Anarchy" and calls it more specifically, "Machiavellianism." He points to its arrival as coinciding with the birth of the modern sovereign state, sometime at the end of the 1400's, in which the state became both the end and means to itself, existing only to perpetuate the state. Dickinson was himself a very frustrated pacifist and maintained a hope in the good nature of individual people to overcome the evil tendencies of the states.
Having formulated his blame, Dickinson was still working out his solution to the cause of continuous European wars (interrupted only by periods of peace which were really just "latent war"). He does however begin to make suggestions that could counter the nature of Leviathan. Chief among them was to make the foreign policies of nations as democratic as domestic policies, in which nation-states were to relinquish a portion of their sovereignty in favor of a socialist restructuring into one international body. From this, Dickinson has been credited as the primary thinker behind the formation of the League of Nations.
Ironically, the "peace" he envisioned by a shared authority could only be enforced through the use of force and he merely is supplanting inevitable international wars for the inevitable national ones. It also didn't address the problem we see today in the League of Nation's successor, the UN, which can be manipulated and dominated by the stronger members for purposes of advancement of the individual state.
I'll admit to skipping paragraphs here and there and to skimming entire sections that I thought I had a grasp on but I don't think I lost any comprehension of his ideas. I would ordinarily have added this to the precarious towering stack of political utopian literature if it were not for the fact that the book also contains a great deal of contemporary insight into the characteristics of nations and the individual peoples that populated them at the turn of the 20th century; this I think saved it from being too dry a read.
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