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.

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

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

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.

No system of balance functions automatically.

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.

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