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.

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.

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.

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

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

No system of balance functions automatically.

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.