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Man, the state, and war : a theoretical analysis / Kenneth N. Waltz

Author
Waltz, Kenneth N. (Kenneth Neal), 1924-2013
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages)
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Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The first image : international conflict and human behavior -- 3. Some implications of the first image : the behavioral sciences and the reduction of interstate violence -- 4. The second image : international conflict and the internal structure of states -- 5. Some implications of the second image : international socialism and the coming of the First World War -- 6. The third image : international conflict and international anarchy -- 7. Some implications of the third image : examples from economics, politics, and history -- 8. Conclusion.
Summary
What are the causes of war? Waltz probes the ideas that thinkers throughout the history of Western civilisation - including St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, & Spinoza - have offered to explain the reasons for men & related prescriptions for peace.
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ISBN
9780231515917 (electronic bk.)
023151591X (electronic bk.)
0231125372
9780231125376
9780231547635 (e-book)
0231547633
Note
Originally published: 1959. With new pref.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
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