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.

No system of balance functions automatically.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.