Kenneth Waltz Quotes

• 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 there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.

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  Mean, Judging, Way

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press

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• With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

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  War, Ambition, Law

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.159, Columbia University Press

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

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  Perfectly Good, Law, World

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.163, Columbia University Press

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• In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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  Anarchy, Harmony, Anarchism

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press

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• Según la primera imagen de las relaciones internacionales, el lugar de las causas importantes de la guerra se encuentra en la naturaleza y el comportamiento del hombre. Las guerras son el resultado del egoísmo, de impulsos agresivos mal dirigidos, de la estupidez.

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  War, Men, Stupidity

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• 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 created.

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  Loyalty, Groups, Loyal

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.69, Columbia University Press

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

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  Men, Political, Important

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.42, Columbia University Press

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

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  War, Answers, States

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.188, Columbia University Press

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• External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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  Unity, Pressure, Produce

  "Man, the State, and War" by Kenneth Waltz, (p. 149), 1959.

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

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  Men, Doe, Reason

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.23, Columbia University Press

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• 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 by the actions of the others.

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  Games, Choices, Action

  Kenneth Neal Waltz (2001). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.204, Columbia University Press

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• 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 degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

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  War, Acceptance, Earthquakes

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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

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  Geography And History, Theory, Relation

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press

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

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  Unions, Disappear, States

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.230, Columbia University Press

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

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  Socialism, Reason, States

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.150, Columbia University Press

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• War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

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  War, Waiting, Unity

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.81, Columbia University Press

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• No system of balance functions automatically.

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  Balance, Function

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.210, Columbia University Press

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

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  War, May, Wealth

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.224, Columbia University Press

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• To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

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  Men, Understanding, Needs

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.38, Columbia University Press

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• In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

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  Zero, Games, Problem

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.202, Columbia University Press

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

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  Order, States, Capitalism

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.127, Columbia University Press

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• 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 end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

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  Data, Association, Ends

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Theory of International Politics”, p.4, Waveland Press

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• La guerra puede favorecer los intereses transitorios de las casas reales; la paz favorece los intereses reales de todos los pueblos.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Real, Guerra, Gente

  "Man, the State, and War". Book by Kenneth Waltz (Chapter IV "The Second Image", p. 98), 1959.

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• 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 states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

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  Law, Weakness, Paper

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press

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