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.

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

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

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

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

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