In politics, a promise

Book name: In Politics and War Author: Hannah Arendt Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications Book classification: Novels Number of pages: 304 About the book: If the only concern of politics in fact is foreign policy, or the danger lurking in the relations between nations, then the intention was no more and no less than Klauswitz's phrase that war is a continuation of politics by other means, which has been turned upside down to become the statement that politics is nothing but the continuation of war, where means of force are exchanged periodically with means of cunning, and who can deny that the conditions of the arms race we live under, and must live under, show us at least that Kant's phrase, stating that nothing should happen during war that would make a subsequent peace impossible, has likewise been turned upside down, to the extent that we live in a peace where nothing is left unprepared to make a subsequent war possible.