Abstract
Research on conflict and peace is perhaps the most crucial topic of policy science today. Yet is there not some wishful thinking in the assumptions of many studies of the subject? Dr. Oppenheimer identifies some economic and psychological assumptions he believes to be erroneous and suggests a shift in research focus to the realities of mass political and social behavior. The author, recently on the faculty of Temple University, is now Assistant Director of Studies of the American Friends Service Committee.
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