Harold J. Laski: “I do not advocate the supremacy of international authority over the…”

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I do not advocate the supremacy of international authority over the national state in order to destroy the national state.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski clarifies that he does not support international authority to undermine national states but rather to provide perspective on nationalism.

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