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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
The immense increase in the costs and risks of using military force to pursue political aims has once again focussed attention on the available ways of effecting changes in the international status quo by non-violent means. This is the subject of “peaceful change,” which has for some years troubled the minds of those concerned to reduce the resort to violence in international affairs.
The international status quo is embodied in several thousand treaties and understandings that mark out the current distribution of values and resources among nations. But this distribution is subject to constant pressure for revision as the needs and ambitions of nations change.
1 According to the New York Times, “Both President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles are well aware that peaceful change is the most difficult enterprise in diplomacy” (Bloom-field, , op.cit., p. 179).Google Scholar
2 Ibid., p. 55.
