Pax mundi

The author surveys late-nineteenth-century efforts to replace war with legal mechanisms, tracing the growth of arbitration, neutrality agreements, international law, and disarmament; the account combines descriptions of institutional and treaty developments with analysis of political obstacles and regional tensions, assesses recent initiatives and likely further developments, and offers pragmatic proposals and prospects for advancing peaceful dispute resolution, concluding with an appendix of documentary material to illustrate legal and diplomatic precedents.