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

Man, the State and War: A theoretical Analysis. New York: Columbia University Press. I met Waltz for the first and only time at a small conference at Yale last year. In this article, I put three works into conversation: William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and Kenneth Waltz's Man, the State and War. New York: Oxford University Press. And this is true not only of Theory but also of much of his other work, including Man, the State, and War. Waltz's argument stems directly from the logic of nuclear deterrence and the balance of power, a concept he reinvigorated in his seminal text "Man, the State, and War". €�to report the State of the Union -- to improve it is the task of us all.” Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. Level-of-analysis is a choice that an IR scholar must make when attempting to explain state behavior. Liberty, Rationality and Agency in Hobbe's Leviathan. An all-time classic, which I first read as a college sophomore. 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. The most thorough examination of the proper unit of analysis in IR is Waltz's seminal 1959 book,Man, The State and War [2]. 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! Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War.