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As well as fostering interest in an IPF, the air menace and the disarmament deadlock generated renewed resistance to involvement in war and antipathy to core liberal internationalist expectations of collective security. ‘My belief in absolute pacifism’, wrote Bertrand Russell, ‘is limited to the present time, and depends upon the destructiveness of air warfare’.1 But the growth of war rejection from the concern of small peace societies into a mass phenomenon was also attributable to the failure of collective security in Asia.
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6 Resistance: Pacifism and the Power of Defiance
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Pugh, M.C. (2012). Resistance: Pacifism and the Power of Defiance. In: Liberal Internationalism. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291943_6
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