If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.

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

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

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

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

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.

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