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Article: War
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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War
BIBLIOGRAPHY
In general, war is the outbreak of armed hostilities within, between, or among states or other political groups and communities, in which strategic, political, economic, and other important outcomes are decided mainly by the use of military force. In international law, war is a legal condition of open and declared hostility between or among states, wherein diplomatic relations are automatically severed (if an official state of war is declared) and states may use any military force deemed appropriate or effective, subject only to the laws of war and perhaps to notions of
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just war.
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According to the Bismarckian
realpolitik
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realistic politics
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