![]() ![]() The League of Nations introduced new methods and ideas into international relations and enjoyed tremendous public support all over the world at the time,” she said. Professor Margaret MacMillan speaking at CEU March 7, 2018. Secondly, governments see the need to compensate their people for the costs of war.” “Historians and anthropologists have long argued about the utility of war and its effect on how human societies organize themselves… War has the unintended effect of producing larger political groupings that help with human progress. But it can also bring progress and peace,” MacMillan said. It brings enormous destruction and death. “There is a paradox in war, an uncomfortable one. In the 20th century, when war became total, that social change was broader and deeper because war affected entire societies, she said, in a lecture entitled “War and the Open Society in the 20th Century.” ![]() ![]() ![]() it is not an aberration - and brings about vast social changes, MacMillan began. War has been a recurring feature across human history - i.e. Antony's College, speaking at CEU March 7 as part of the Rethinking Open Society series. Margaret MacMillan, professor at the University of Toronto and the former warden of St. ![]()
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