War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

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

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 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.

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.

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

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .