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

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.

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.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.