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We live in an age of progressive science and conservative diplomacy. The instruments and techniques of international relations have not been adapted to the shape and mood of our changing world. Diplomacy is provincial in scope. It awakens only to specific local dangers and rarely addresses itself to the total human condition. And it is remedial and not preventive in its method. It is more concerned with putting out fires than with ensuring that they do not erupt. Twenty years after Hiroshima mankind lacks institutions which show any signs of controlling human destiny at its two most crucial points — security and development.
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Eban, A. (1966). Conflict between Nations. In: Mudd, S. (eds) Conflict Resolution and World Education. World Academy of Art and Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6269-4_10
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