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Ideally, all human beings would live without nation-states or national armies, so that there would be no need for national defense. But this happy state of affairs could not be expected to come about all at once; we must assume a transitional period in which an anarchic society coexists with state-dominated societies. Could the two kinds of society coexist, or would the one inevitably overtake the other?
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Huemer, M. (2013). War and Societal Defense. In: The Problem of Political Authority. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281661_12
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