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Class Consciousness as a Restraint on War

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It is not only national sentiment that may affect the attitude of individuals towards other states. This may be affected also, some suggested, by class consciousness. If attitudes and actions were influenced not by national sentiment but only by class loyalty, as some of these writers appeared to hope, wars between states might cease to occur and a new type of international society come into being.

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Luard, E. (1992). Class Consciousness as a Restraint on War. In: Basic Texts in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22107-3_8

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