Abstract
War is mass lunacy. The world accepted 8 million deaths in the First World War, and estimates vary from 35 million to 60 million in the Second. At least 1 million died in the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88. Killing in war is now mainly impersonal, like spraying insecticide, and is covered by laws quite different from those covering any other kind of killing. Yet wars continue. There were more than 30 in progress at the time of writing.
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1961) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968, pp. 183–8
James E. Dougherty and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr, Contending Theories of International Relations, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1971, Chapter 3, gives an excellent analysis of the views of the political realist philosophers
For examples of this dedication see Lee Kuan Yew, The Battle for Merger, Singapore Government Publications, 1961, pp. 19, 21 and 85,
cited in Richard Clutterbuck, Conflict and Violence in Singapore and Malaysia, Singapore, Graham Brash and Boulder, Colorado, West-view, 1985, p. 64.
See also Richard Clutterbuck, Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, London, Faber & Faber, 1973, p. 271
Coral Bell, The Conventions of Crisis, London, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 116
Harlan Cleveland, ‘Crisis Diplomacy’, Foreign Affairs, New York, July 1963
Heidi Avery, ‘Industrial Society and International Order: Sir Norman Angell’s Analysis’, unpublished Master of Studies Thesis, Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University, June 1990, gives a concise and lucid account of this theory.
She cites Sir Norman Angell’s books, The Great Illusion, London, Heinemann, 1912, and After All, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951;
also J. D. B. Miller, Norman Angell and the Futility of War, Hong Kong, Macmillan, 1986
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Clutterbuck, R. (1993). International Power and Crisis Management. In: International Crisis and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379015_1
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