Chapter 1. The Problem of Security; Historicity of the State and “European Realism”
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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Chapter 5, Part 2. Is Democracy More Peaceful than Other Forms of Government?
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 10. Government and the Private Production of Defense
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Acknowledgments — The Myth of National Defense
Acknowledgments for The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production.
Chapter 4. Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation or Monopoly?
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 8. The Will to be Free: The Role of Ideology in National Defense
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 2. War, Peace, and the State
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 6. Mercenaries, Guerrillas, Militias, and the Defense of Minimal States and Free Societies
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 11. Secession and the Production of Defense
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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