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One of the most influential attempts of this kind can be found in Quincy Wrights works. Wright defines war on an analytical ground as “the legal condition which equally permits two or more hostile groups to carry on a conflict by armed force” (Wright, 1942: 8). This conception, according to Wright, comprises all aspects from legal to political and from military to socio-psychological viewpoints. It is explained by Wright as follows; instead of violence there is reference to armed force implying a very specific type of violence and its conscious employment to achieve an end. The word “conflict” is used with the implication that war is a definite and mutually understood pattern of behavior. The expression “hostile groups” is used to confine
the entities which may be at war to indicate that small class known as social groups and finally the warring entities are said to have equality under law which suggests that the entities are the members of a higher group besides their hostility.