ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at what Carl Jung wrote about the international scene before the end of the Second World War. After the war he continued to show an awareness of the wider political situation but his theoretical perspective changed and he focused more on the individual and the contemporary culture. By 1931 Jung was again warning of the instability of the armed balance of power, but he began to shift his focus from the systemic instability of the balance of power to look at the irrationality of decision makers. In 1935 Jung was concerned with over-population and talked of war as a means of keeping populations down. In 1930, Jung wrote for a whole page on his views about how psychology caused the Great War and lengthened the fighting. Jung's concern was to draw attention to the psychological aspect of international politics.
