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Attention is focused upon an important perspective if war is to be thought of as an institution. The Oxford English Dictionary describes the use of the word ‘institution’ in a number of ways which include
an established law, custom, usage, practice, organization or other element in the political or social life of a people.
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Middleton, H. (1992). Some Psychological Bases of the Institution of War. In: Hinde, R.A. (eds) The Institution of War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21707-6_3
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