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

World government / International (economic) organization / supranational institutions / neofunctionalism (as prescriptions for peace) : ". Our military is fighting multiple wars of aggression on foreign soil and is needlessly based in over 130 nations. Plus: The State of the Union in 3 easy sentences. 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. I met Waltz for the first and only time at a small conference at Yale last year. 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! The lecture series launched by Buzan and Cox has proved a fitting way to further the debates fired by Kenneth Waltz his landmark books Man, the State and War, and Theory of International Politics. And this is true not only of Theory but also of much of his other work, including Man, the State, and War. Coexistence and making government viable are critical ingredients for any solution because government, as Kenneth Waltz posits in his seminal work "Man, the State and War", is ultimately 'a precondition of society'. We find Rousseau arguing this position: “War is constituted by a relation between things, and not between persons…War then is a relation, not between man and man, but between State and State…” (The Social Contract). KENNETH WALTZ: Man, the State and War. Kenneth Waltz, the most important Realist theorist of the last half-century, died Monday, a few weeks before his 89th birthday. His Columbia University doctoral dissertation was published in 1959 as Man, the State, and War. Waltz's “one big thing” was to view international politics in terms of structure, whether defined as the anarchy of the international system (in Man, the State and War) or its polarity (in Theory of International Relations). 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). Http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137731/kenneth-n-waltz/why-iran-should-get-the-bomb.