The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

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.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

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.

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.