This Troubled World - Paperback
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This Troubled World - Paperback
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by Eleanor Roosevelt (Author)
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote these essays in the late 1930s as headlines grew more alarming by the day - and the core argument still reads as immediate. Opening with a frank admission that the morning papers had become almost intolerable, Roosevelt moves quickly from diagnosis to prescription.
She examines how nations slide from suspicion into armed confrontation, then lays out concrete proposals: binding international arbitration, stronger multilateral institutions, and a civic ethic that treats the drift toward armament as a political choice rather than an inevitability. Each essay is brief, plainspoken, and pointed. Roosevelt insists that democratic citizens bear direct responsibility for the policies their governments pursue - particularly when those policies involve preparing for war. She frames military spending not as a narrow technical question but as a moral and political one, shaped by public will and subject to public accountability. The collection functions as a compact primer on how peace advocacy operated in American civic discourse during a period of rising global tension. It clarifies the logic behind institutional dispute resolution, explains why Roosevelt believed permanent peace required structural commitments rather than good intentions alone, and situates those arguments within the broader landscape of twentieth-century diplomacy. At fewer than a hundred pages, This Troubled World remains one of the most accessible entry points into the interwar debate over whether nations could build durable alternatives to armed conflict - and what citizens owed that effort.
Number of Pages: 36
Dimensions: 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: May 22, 2024
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