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Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?

— Kenneth Waltz Man, the State, and War (1959)

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No system of balance functions automatically.

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The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

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