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The Great Illusion a Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage

Sir Norman Angell

International trade and the development of intertwined global markets makes inter-state war less profitable and probable. This is Norman Angell's simple hypothesis, vigorously defended in The Great Illusion and at the root of an enduring controversy, from the time of its initial publication - on the...

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The Matt Walsh Show

The host noted that Norman Engel's 1909 bestseller argued war was obsolete because economic interdependence would prevent major conflicts, a view later disproved by World Wars.

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In fact, in 1909, somebody named Norman Engel wrote a book called The Great Illusion. And the premise of the book, which became an international bestseller, gained a massive following on college campu...

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The host noted that Norman Engel's 1909 bestseller argued war was obsolete because economic interdependence would prevent major conflicts, a view later disproved by World Wars.

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In fact, in 1909, somebody named Norman Engel wrote a book called The Great Illusion. And the premise of the book, which became an international bestseller, gained a massive following on college campuses, was that war was a thing of the past. Nobody took issue with it. War had been solved.

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