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

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.

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

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.

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 result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

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.