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

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. His Columbia University doctoral dissertation was published in 1959 as Man, the State, and War. 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). 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. The levels-of-analysis issue is a fairly large one in IR and comparative politics. In 1959 Waltz wrote in *Man, the State, and War* about three "images" of politics: the individual, the state, the international system. 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. Can realist thought on the causes of war stand against the constructivist assault ? I met Waltz for the first and only time at a small conference at Yale last year. The most thorough examination of the proper unit of analysis in IR is Waltz's seminal 1959 book,Man, The State and War [2]. Kenneth Waltz, the most important Realist theorist of the last half-century, died Monday, a few weeks before his 89th birthday. Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis [ペーパーバック]. 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. 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. And this is true not only of Theory but also of much of his other work, including Man, the State, and War.