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‘Building ‘peace by pieces’ is the basis of functionalism’. Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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"Peace by pieces" captures the method of David Mitrany, whose A Working Peace System (1943) rejected both the League's constitutional design and federalist schemes for world government. Peace is not declared whole in a treaty; it is assembled from fragments, each a small act of cooperation on a shared practical problem, binding shared interests together…

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