The Consequences of Enlightenment Thinking

It's not true that wars increased after the white, quite contrary. If you look at the percentage of years of the great powers that they were at war with each other, it actually goes down starting in the 17th century. Great power wars don't even occur anymore. We haven't had one for about 65 years. The first time in, I think, in human history, you have a systematic move away from war there occurred after 1945.