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In actual fact what can all the international treaties and all the appeals to the nations to restrict their sovereignties in the higher interests of an international order avail if the conviction prevails that treaties need only be adhered to as long as appears profitable? That states can live according to their own code of laws, which is beyond good and evil? That politics turn only on the conception of friend and foe and are subject to a different set of morals than obtain between individuals? That the sacrosanct egoism of the nation justifies falsehood, breach of contract and force.
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Röpke, W. (1959). The Nation and the Community of Nations. In: International Order and Economic Integration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3692-4_2
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