What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE 2001 EDITION
- FOREWORD (1959)
- PREFACE (1959)
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. THE FIRST IMAGE
- III. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE FIRST IMAGE
- IV. THE SECOND IMAGE
- V. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE SECOND IMAGE
- VI. THE THIRD IMAGE
- VII. SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE THIRD IMAGE
- VIII. CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX