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“peaceful coexistence” in “a world safe for diversity” this experience is
more likely to serve the national interest of each than is ad hoc calculation
of power politics. Cold war rivalries have in recent times induced aggres-
sions, interventions, and subversions in violation of international law and
the principles of the Charter. It is to be hoped that the fading of the cold
war, appreciation of the perils of power politics, and understanding of the
trend of international relations will induce appreciation of the need for a
world rule of law and energy in devising means to realize it.
NOTES
1. In a letter to Jefferson on May 13, 1798, Madison wrote: “Perhaps it is a uni-
versal truth that loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provision against danger,
real or pretended, from abroad,” quoted by Harold D. Lasswell, National Security
and Individual Freedom (New York, 1950), p. 23. See also, ibid., p. 47, and H. Lass-
well, “The Garrison State,” American Journal of Sociology, XLVI (1941), 455; Quincy
Wright, A Study of War (Chicago, 1942, 2nd ed., 1965), pp. 262ff., 306, 842, 1169ff.;
Quincy Wright, Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations (Berke-
ley, 1954), pp. 24, 274ff.
2. “The Criticism of the Gotha Program,” in Max Eastman (ed.), Capital, The
Communist Manifesto, and Other Writings by Karl Marx (New York, 1932), p. 7.
3. For classification and characterization of economic systems see Wright, A
Study of War, pp. 1157ff., and of ideologies, ibid., pp. 169ff., 615ff., 622.
4. According to Harold LassweIl, all revolutions start as world revolutions. See
“The Strategy of Revolution and War Propaganda” in Q. Wright (ed.), Public Opinion
and World Politics (Chicago, 1933), pp. 187ff., and Wright, A Study of War, p. 1110.
5. Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3; Joel 3:10.
6. Pitirim Sorokin, “Mutual Convergence of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the
Mixed Socio-Cultural Type,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, I
(1960), 143ff.
7. Compare with the political, cultural, religious, and economic motives for modern
war in Wright, A Study of War, pp. 278ff., and with W. I. Thomas’ “great human
wishes” for security, new experience, recognition, and response, as quoted, ibid.,
pp. 286, 1344.