Man, the State and War A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS | By Kenneth N. Waltz oe al COLUMBIA dviversia re New York and London i tAP dna ¢ ¢ 5 a 2 z g z B 3 z z zg 2 $99999993999999939399999999999999998FOREWORD Man, HE stare, ano wan is the second of the Topicai Studies in International Relations to be published. “The series was planned to demonstrate some of the contribu tions which existing bodies of knowledge are capable of : making to the understanding of modern international relations. Even in a relatively new field of academic spe- is not necessary for the scholar to make an absolutely fresh start. Indeed, it is incumbent upon him 5 rot to fail to draw on existing storehouses of knowledge. _ One of those storehiouses least systematically inventoried for its usefulnéss for international relations is cla 6 © & oS & e o oS S i Western political thought. Each volume in the Topical i Studies series was meant to be such an inventory. It is particularly appropriate that Man, the State, and War be , included in the seties. Professor Waltz his chosen to investigate the particular contribution which classical political theory makes to £ understanding the causes of war and to defining the con- ditions under which war can be controlled or eliminated as the final arbiter of disputes between groups of men in the absence of central authority. There are other funda mental questions of fiterest to the student of international relations to which classical political theorists have sought to provide answers, but none is s0 central as the question with which Professor Waltz is concerned. His method has been to describe the answers which certain representative theorists have given and then in G € Copyright @ 1954, 1059 Columbia University Pres ‘ln phe in bak form 0 alternate chapters to discuss some of the implications and 5 applications of classical insights to contemporary social fi brary of Canes Cuil Card Number: 8 182 science research and choices in the field of public policy. 2 " ‘Thus, his work is far tore than a work of exegesis. He is : OE@GCEGERCELEE