Attack

          Studi Hubungan Internasional berawal dari akibat buruk Perang Dunia I. ketika konflik tersebut begitu menyeramkan, para sarjana HI pada awalnya begitu optimis tentang kemungkinan-kemungkinan mengakhiri kekejaman perang.
Berikut ini adalah puisi dari Sassoon yang benar-benar mengungkapkan horor, tragedi dan penderitaan kehidupan manusia selama Perang Dunia I dan berkontribusi pada tumbuhnya simpati-simpati kaum pasifis pada periode pasca-perang.

ATTACK

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun,
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,
Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.
The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed
With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear,
Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,
They leave their trenches, going over the top,
While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,
Flounders in mud.
O Jesus, make it stop!

                                                Siegfried Sassoon 1918