Professor Boulding's Peaceable Kingdom

Abstract

An examination of Boulding's paper reveals questionable interpretations of historical as well as current events, and dubious extrapolations from these to the future. It is difficult to draw correct conclusions from false premises; the derogation of Western democracies and economic globalization, and the exaltation of movements that call themselves progressive and peace-enhancing-but are not necessarily either-place both negative and positive assumptions and presumed factors largely in the wrong places.