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Strength through peace : how demilitarization led to peace and happiness in Costa Rica, and what the rest of the world can learn from a tiny, tropical nation
- Title
- Strength through peace : how demilitarization led to peace and happiness in Costa Rica, and what the rest of the world can learn from a tiny, tropical nation / Judith Eve Lipton, MD, David P. Barash, PhD.
- Author
- Lipton, Judith Eve
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barash, David P.
- Description
- vii, 261 pages : maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Costa Rica is the only fully demilitarized, completely independent country in the world. Through good luck, good leadership, and good decisions, Costa Rica has become arguably the sanest and most progressive country on earth. This book examines how and why Costa Rica is safe and independent without any military at all, and what the rest of us can learn from its success"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pursuing the paradox -- War and human nature -- Costa Rica's demilitarization -- Demilitarization elsewhere -- Good luck -- Good policy -- The past as prologue -- Guns and butter, bananas and coffee -- National security : bombs, bonobos, and banks -- On the fragility of good things.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5855
- ISBN
- 9780199924974
- 019992497X
- LCCN
- 2018002133
- 40028805674
- 40028787174
- OCLC
- 1047533187
- Author
- Lipton, Judith Eve, author.
- Title
- Strength through peace : how demilitarization led to peace and happiness in Costa Rica, and what the rest of the world can learn from a tiny, tropical nation / Judith Eve Lipton, MD, David P. Barash, PhD.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1948
- Added Author
- Barash, David P., author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 4002880567440028787174
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5855