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

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.

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.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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

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.