Summary
Raymond Aron: Peace and War Among Nations
I am borrowing this page from Jean Jacques Rousseau's passage on the state of war. Peace and War among Nations took as its starting point the classical theses: the state of nature (or possible war) between states is essentially different from the civil state within states. Citizens obey the law, even when it expresses force while concealing it. The book, therefore, refers to the interstate system: the system of international relations of states, where each of them watches over the others in order to be safe, and state war is not a relationship between individuals, but a relationship between states. "War is not the connection of man with man, but the connection of state with state in which individuals are enemies only by unfortunate coincidence, and not as people, not even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the homeland, but as defenders".
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