In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.
No system of balance functions automatically.
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.
The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.