No system of balance functions automatically.

Each 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.

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

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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.