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Kenneth Waltz (1924 – 2013)


Member of the faculty at the University of California and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations of the 20th century.
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Kenneth Waltz
The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.
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Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
Waltz
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.




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