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Book Review: Conflict and Peace Studies Lawrence S. Wittner, Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement from 1971 to the Present (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 657 pp., pbk.)

questions. His plea for a normative yet systematic social science is a welcome one. Did the study of international relations also undergo an ‘enlightenment’? Katznelson stresses the way in which both Polanyi and Arendt blended both domestic and international dynamics in their analyses of 20th century pathologies. But there is little discussion of the burgeoning discipline of IR. More on this subject would have been interesting, for it is likely that the study of IR could have been fitted neatly into his story, for example by including the work of Arendt’s friend Hans Morgenthau. Desolation and Enlightenment is a brief, at times impressionistic, but always searching reflection on the way in which a group of imaginative thinkers tried to reinvigorate the search for political knowledge in the wake of horror. But it is not only a work of intellectual history: the book is also a suggestive, and at times brilliant, meditation on the methods of historical social science. Its combination of wide learning, historical sensitivity, focused insight, and controlled passion is a model of reflective scholarship and engaged social criticism. If only the same could be said of much contemporary social and political thought.