In anarchy there is no automatic harmony ..

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace..

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it..

No system of balance functions automatically..

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited….

Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because the….

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth..

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the state….

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply en….

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying d….

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars re….

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason..

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dicta….

External pressure seems to produce internal unity..

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man..

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous..

Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be crea….

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law..

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states..

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accident….