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Our practical concern is with preventing war. Our theoretical concern is with how war is caused. Our entry into the topic is with a strong awareness that war is caused “in the minds of men,” as a statement from UNESCO once put it. To understand how war is caused we seek to understand the human mentational processes. So our inquiry would fall under the heading of psychology; and we conceive of an area of inquiry which might be considered as “the psychology of war.”
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Bakan, D. (1991). Some Philosophical Propadeutics toward a Psychology of War. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Psychology of War and Peace. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0747-9_2
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