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

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

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .