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Britain's Defence Policy

are governed by perceptions of the power each has to pursue its own purposes, of which the continuation of its own independent existence is presumed to be fundamental. At the same time, the interdependence of states is manifest, and, as a generality, the more highly-developed, the more interdependent. Indeed, some see the very existence of separate states as a blight upon the brotherhood of man, and a bar to the emergence of world-government. The evolution of a world system of nation-states has been accompanied by so much organised violence-and, alas, its continuance cannot yet be excluded-that it is easy to overlook the benefits which have accrued to the individual, the ’common man’, from the continued use in peacetime of techniques of cooperative endeavour introduced in response to the exigencies of war. As to war itself, identified by Clausewitz 150 years ago as ‘an act of violence intended to compel