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Indeed, as America’s empire expanded across the Pacific starting in 1898, the country stubbornly refused any version of arbitration that placed any check on its freedom to stay out of European war. Arbitration was a good thing for European states, given their usual internecine violence. But Americans drew up short if arbitration meant they might get drawn into wars, especially ones pitting European warmongers against one another.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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