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

Some of you might have seen the summer 2009 issue of International Relations; a retrospective on Man, the State, and War, by Kenneth Waltz, and its fiftieth anniversary. Hence, state agents are prone to become provocateurs and aggressors and the process of centralization can be expected to proceed by means of violent clashes, i.e., interstate wars. His two classics, Man, the State and War, and, Theory of International Politics, even as a Marxist, had a great impact on my thinking. The confiscation law treated these enslaved people not as property but explicitly as “captives of war.” In other words, federal law never recognized the principle of property in man. 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. Plus: The State of the Union in 3 easy sentences. 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! I have no doubt that nearly every writer on IR who has contributed to OpenCanada has read not one but both of Waltz's books: Man, The State, and War and Theory of International Politics. Just think of Lenin or Stalin, who were certainly more democratic than Czar Nicholas II; or think of Hitler, who was definitely more democratic and a "man of the people" than Kaiser Wilhelm II or Kaiser Franz Joseph. Moreover, given that states must ..