No system of balance functions automatically.

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.

With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

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.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.