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

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.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

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

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.

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

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.