Griffin, David Ray. "Whitehead, China, and Global Democracy in the New Millennium." Ed. Zang, Yanyang. Hebie, China: Hebie University Press, 2003. 438-452.

Abstract                        

“my argument for global democracy is an argument from values-values that are common to all people but that are terribly violated by the present global order. I turn immediately to this argument. 1. What we call, in terms of the Western calendar, the 21^st century is not only the beginning of a new millennium. Given the fact that human civilization has existed for about ten millennia, we can consider the present century the beginning of the second ten-millennia period. 2. The history of civilization has been, to a great extent, the history of warfare. This point means that civilization and organized warfare arose at the same time, about 10,000 years ago. The archeological basis for dating the rise of warfare is evidence of the offensive-defensive cycle, in which the invention of a new offensive weapon to overcome this defense, and so on…”