TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Twentieth-century Stories
JO  - Journal of peace research
A1  - Knutsen, T. L.
SP  - 119
EP  - 127
VL  - 39
IS  - 1
N2  - This essay examines four influential books on the trends and themes of the 20th century: The Age of Extremes, The Passing of an Illusion, Dark Continent and Triangulating Peace. All four books discuss the same historical events but incorporate them in very different stories. The main differences between the books are in the literary forms that they most closely conform to - tragedy, comedy, satire and romance, respectively. The essay concludes by asking why historians tend to bypass in silence the remarkable fact which constitutes the core of Triangulating Peace - and which might well be the most important feature of the 20th century - namely, that no democracy has gone to war against another democracy.<p />
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SN  - 0022-3433
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343302039001008
ID  - ref1
ER  -