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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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