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.
Kenneth WaltzThe 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.
Kenneth WaltzIt is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
Kenneth WaltzTo build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Kenneth WaltzEach 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.
Kenneth Waltz