“War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”

— Kenneth N. Waltz, book Man, the State, and War

Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 81

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“There is but one way to bring about the triumph of liberty, of justice, and of peace in Europe's international relations, to make civil war impossible between the different peoples who make up the European family; and that is the formation of the United States of Europe.”

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Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist

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“For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife.”

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife. The tribe exists at all times in a state of mobilization for war against its neighbors. The slightest incident, or often merely a desire to increase prestige, is enough to set off a skirmish, and in such circumstances hatred against external enemies must be unremitting.<!-- p. 97

“War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”

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