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The view that the more ordinary people could control the actions of states the more peaceful they would become was not self-evident. For it was not certain that ordinary people were always peacefully inclined. Even a state having parliamentary institutions might be aggressive in its conduct if its peoples were inspired by strongly nationalistic sentiments.
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Luard, E. (1992). The Citizen as a Stimulus to War. In: Basic Texts in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22107-3_7
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