Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

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).

Nonviolence
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 […]

Primary Sidebar

Support Independent Journalism

Click here to donate via PayPal.

Personal checks should be made out to Juan Cole and sent to me at:

Juan Cole
P. O. Box 4218,
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548
USA
(Remember, make the checks out to “Juan Cole” or they can’t be cashed)

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter to have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.
Warning! Social media will not reliably deliver Informed Comment to you. They are shadowbanning news sites, especially if "controversial."
To see new IC posts, please sign up for our email Newsletter.

Social Media

Bluesky | Instagram

Popular

  • When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
  • Why China is Defying Trump's Tariffs on Iran Trade
  • Minneapolis is Healing the Wounds of Hatred by Leading with Love
  • Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres
  • Just as Dangerous: Vance and the 2028 Election

Gaza Yet Stands


Juan Cole's New Ebook at Amazon. Click Here to Buy
__________________________

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires



Click here to Buy Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Click here to Buy The Rubaiyat.
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved