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David Carroll Cochran

David Carroll Cochran is professor of politics at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and the author of "Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War" (Orbis Books).

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The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

The Hidden Success of the 1928 Peace Pact

David Carroll Cochran

Dubuque ( Waging Nonviolence) – In August 1928, over a dozen countries gathered in Paris to sign the Peace Pact, also known in the United States as the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The treaty renounced “recourse to war for the solution of international controversies” and “as an instrument of national policy.” By 1934, 63 nations had ratified […]

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