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Pleading for an `International Institute on Wars', whose task would be to study the cause of conflicts & to attempt to prevent such conflicts, this article was written in French in a Belgian periodical: The Army--The Nation. The authors begin with the fact that war has been studied very little, which is a result of mans' familiartity with such a phenomenon. There is the impression that war depends solely on the arbitrary will of men, & finally, there is the illusion that we are in no danger of it. Neither the philosophers nor the sociol's who have actually studied war have been able to explain its power. The jurists, in fighting against war & in seeking to create an international order, actually encourage war by making war one of the perogatives of all sovereign states. Has Bertrand de Jouvenel discovered the solution which holds that war is connected to power? The establishment of an institute is as wise, as it is urgent to support the role of defensive military alliances such as NATO which, to guard against war, bestirs us to arm ourselves. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.