The Economic System and International Order

Abstract

After giving a general description of the problems of international order in the introduction, in the course of which actual political questions were discussed as far as seems suitable for the purposes of this book, we shall now pursue those questions which seem to us to be most important. We emphasized that international order should be viewed first and foremost in the light of national order and must be developed out of it; that international peace, if it is not to be uprooted by every tempest, must be deeply and firmly grounded in a society which displays healthy spiritual, moral, economic, and social characteristics i.e. steadfastness, simplicity, justice, and humanity. Since the international crisis is only one part of the general crisis of society today, it is understandable that it can be overcome only by the solution of this general crisis. The programme of social and economic reform, therefore, which was developed in my earlier books ‘Die Gesellschaftskrisis der Gegenwart’ and ‘Civitas humana’ is also a programme of a new international order which shall supply the real foundation for a specifically political and legal programme of international political organization.