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Man, the State and War Kenneth N. Waltz
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Anyway, I see humans as If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men. In the January 28th issue, The State named Charlie Justice “North Carolina's Man of the Year for 1949,” with a Morton portrait of the Justice family on the cover. His two most important works – Man, The State, and War and Theory of International Politics – provided the framework within, and against, international-relations scholars have argued for much of the post-WWII period. Being contractually tied to another person—in marriage, for example—accentuates the loneliness, because you have effectively allowed the state to determine your obligations to someone, as if you can't trust and manage your own feelings by yourself. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the activist coalition funded by billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had a victory Monday in its campaign for new gun restrictions at the state level. The man was not arrested, but had to leave the park. Heck, I wouldn't even let the Coast Guard have "assault weapons" and "high capacity" magazines, except in time of a declared war when they revert to the control of the Navy Department/DoD. That's supposedly bad, since it'll supposedly get filthy. Man, the State, and War considers three lenses through which to approach international relations. Using constructivist (or critical) theories of the causes of war, write a critique of ANY one chapter of Kenneth Waltz's Man, the State, and War. Early realists focused on individual human nature as the dominant factor driving world politics, but later realists claimed it is the structure of the international system. His two classics, Man, the State and War, and, Theory of International Politics, even as a Marxist, had a great impact on my thinking. This book cover would never fly today—mainly cuz it's mainly white! Ken was the author of several enduring classics of the field, including Man, the State, and War (1959), Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics (1967), and Theory of International Politics (1979). One might think its strange to do a book review on a work published over 40 years ago, but too bad, I just finished Kenneth Waltz's 'Man, the State, and War' two days ago, so deal with it! Level-of-analysis is a choice that an IR scholar must make when attempting to explain state behavior. In his most influential work, Man, The State, and War, which began as a dissertation at Columbia in 1950, Waltz quotes the philosopher and historian R. Can realist thought on the causes of war stand against the constructivist assault ? Well, all that little narative of WCN's sounds a lot like Hobbes' highly reductionist description of human nature to me, as well as his proposed solution to man's natural state of perpetual war: the social contract.