This destructive world has already experienced two world wars.

Syria s Two Wars

It took many decades and two world wars before the British pound lost its super currency status.

Our modern history has witnessed two horrible world wars that brought untold sorrow and suffering to humankind.

The vast majority of literature regarding the effect of armed conflict on intellectual property treaties concerns the two World Wars.

It took Europe gruesome religious wars, two world wars, and more than one genocide to resolve its endemic disputes over borders and nationalism. Its record in colonialism wrote monstrous pages in human history.

The United States fought two wars (the First and Second Barbary Wars) over Algiers' attacks on shipping.

On the other hand, Britain restricted the passage of enemy ships through the Suez Canal throughout the First and Second World Wars, and the United States of America partially or fully restricted the use of the Panama Canal during the two World Wars.

The British pound only forfeited its role to the US dollar after more than 50 years of industrial decline and two world wars.

The talk, titled Contours of World Order Continuities and Changes, was mostly about two dominant threats facing humanity nuclear wars and environmental degradation.

The two sides fought proxy wars in Africa and Asia.

On the surface, much about those two wars seem similar.

Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of that war. The experience of two world wars was foundational for European integration.

It is true that two horrendous world wars have taken the glamour out of war for most Europeans (Britain is a slightly different story).

CAMBRIDGE In the first half of the last century, Europe tore itself apart in two wars and destroyed its central role in world politics.

World War I was the trigger that set off the reversal, with economic globalization declining while military globalization increased, as witnessed by two world wars and a global cold war.

It's difficult to imagine that two, or some historians would say three world wars were fought during the colonial era for the control of cod.

Between the two world wars there were four further Conferences of Directors, 1919 in Paris, 1923 in Utrecht, 1929 in Copenhagen and 1935 in Warsaw.

Yet the connection between the two wars has not gone unnoticed.

A similarly significant test is the effect of world wars whereas world wars have historically had the most significant effects on treaties, humanitarian law continued to operate in the First World War.

This was particularly true in the twentieth century, when, in the wake of two world wars, the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the European world powers on the global stage.

All three of these factors vanished between the world wars.

In Europe, transcending nationalism required not only two devastating world wars in the first half of the twentieth century, but also the prevalence of democratic regimes.

The two world wars and the Cold War shaped European integration as a project of peace, defense of the West s fundamental values, and common economic prosperity.

The Roman Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco Roman world and two successive Iranian empires the Parthian and the Sassanid.

The population rose steadily (with the exception of censuses taken following the two world wars) from 2.1 million in 1857 until 1991, when it peaked at 4.7 million.

The good news for Americans is that there is enormous inertia in the world trading and financial system. It took many decades and two world wars before the British pound lost its super currency status.

The world wars of the twentieth century are a case in point.

A century ago, Britain managed the rise of American power without conflict, but the world s failure to manage the rise of German power led to two devastating world wars.

After two world wars, displays of national fervor became more or less taboo in Europe. Nationalism was blamed for almost destroying the old continent twice in the 20th century.

Much has changed, thanks to global capitalism, European integration, the stigmatization of national feeling by two catastrophic world wars, and, perhaps most importantly, the widespread loss of religious faith.

In addition to Vietnam and the two world wars, New Zealand fought in the Korean War, the Second Boer War, the Malayan Emergency, the Gulf War and the Afghanistan War.

Sixty years ago, in the shadow of two catastrophic wars, the nations of the world created this institution in the hope that it would preserve peace and avoid further conflict.

After all, it has survived major wars, numerous diplomatic disputes, and two major market collapses.

NEW YORK Today s debates over currency wars reveal two paradoxical features of the global economy.

After two catastrophic wars, Europeans decided to build institutions that would make military conflict redundant.

The European Union is even more instructive, because centuries of war, culminating in the two World Wars of the twentieth century, inspired, rather than deterred, European economic, political and security integration.

A century later, another American president, Barack Obama, immersed in two hopeless wars in the Middle East, received his Nobel Peace Prize with an apology for just wars.

a massive increase in defense expenditures, fueled by two fruitless wars, but going well beyond that

Between 1939 1945 Finland fought three wars, two against the Soviet Union and one against Germany.

The world wars of the twentieth century led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

And of course, into the vacuum where the too old European powers used to be were played the two bloody catastrophes of the last century the one in the first part and the one in the second part the two great World Wars.

Those on the left also shared a deep aversion to nationalism, born of two disastrous European wars.

World wars Great Britain's dominance of the world had been challenged by numerous other powers in the 20th century, most notably Germany.

After all, take a look at these events Imperialism and colonization, world wars, George W. Bush.