The late Karl W. Deutsch, a renowned political scientist, is probably best remembered for having introduced, some decades ago, the concept of the security community.
Given his careful study of the Allies' failed 1919 attempts at achieving peace through the weakening and isolation of Germany, Prague-born Mr Deutsch proposed that it is only through successful regional integration or, more ambitiously, through independent states' unification that "men some day might abolish war."
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