I almost chose another work of mine, The Origin of War, as my best shot.
Chung Young Kwon, Han'guk pan'gong yŏnghwa tamnon ŭi hyŏngsŏng kwa chŏnjaeng yŏnghwa changnŭ ŭi kiwŏn 1949 ~ 1956 [A Study of the Formation of Discourse on Anti-communist Films and the Origin of War Film in South Korea between 1949 and 1956], Contemporary Film Research 10 (Hanyang University Contemporary Film Research Institute, 2010), pgs.
The exhibit includes a lenticular postcard that juxtaposes Gustave Courbet's famous Origin of the World (1866) with ORLAN's recent Origin of War -- turn the postcard one way and it depicts a woman's pubic region, turn it the other way it depicts a man's.
Robert Jervis, a Columbia University political scientist, who studies the origins of war, once observed, "War is most likely if you overestimate others' hostility but underestimate their capabilities".
Ophüls's film, even unseen, points to the origins of war in romance, to the roots of politics in personal relationships.
Job openings on the nation's college campuses are scarce, while bread-and-butter courses like the Origins of War and American Foreign Policy are dropping from history department postings.
Like a detective story with a vividly ambiguous ending, the debate about the origins of war shows why history can be so accessibly interesting a subject.
Yet low-tech military terrorism has been with us since the recorded origins of war, as illustrated by 19th century Ethiopian armies' castration of prisoners, Pizarro's conquistadores' chopping arms off Inca soldiers and the Spartans' murder of their Plataean prisoners, described 2,400 years ago by Thucydides.
The Origins Of War In The DRC The Atlantic -- Armin Rosen Years of violence in Congo have killed between 3.5 million and 5.4 million people, with millions more displaced.
With yet another Veterans Day rolling around, and no armistice in the perpetual war that Washington has been fighting at least since that other 11th, the one that occurred in September 2001, TomDispatch is returning to the origin of modern war, the almost inconceivable bloodletting of World War I.
"Cold War" doesn't start in 1945 with the Yalta Conference or even the origins of World War II, but pivots all the way to World War I, with grainy footage of marching troops sent by the United States and Britain to help the White Army fight the Bolshevik Revolution.
