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

The most thorough examination of the proper unit of analysis in IR is Waltz's seminal 1959 book,Man, The State and War [2]. Spinoza linked conflict causally to man's imperfect reason. I have no doubt that nearly every writer on IR who has contributed to OpenCanada has read not one but both of Waltz's books: Man, The State, and War and Theory of International Politics. Waltz for generations - since 1959 when he published his dissertation, "Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis.". Naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii, destroying or crippling 18 ships and killing almost 2,500 men. The United States declared war one day later. For Waltz, malign human nature can explain individual wars but not the recurrence and persistence of war over time. Man, the State, and War In cooperative action, even where all agree on the goal and have an equal interest in the project, one cannot rely on others. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombarded the U.S. Perhaps Waltz's primary concern in Man, the State and War is to identify himself as a 'third image' theorist. A pretty prime example of that recently was that, thanks to immigration, a man got his head virtually hacked off in Woolwich High Street a couple weeks ago, and the State's response was to arrest natives for saying angry things on Facebook. In 1959 Waltz wrote in *Man, the State, and War* about three "images" of politics: the individual, the state, the international system. Graduate and undergraduate students have been required to read the works of Professor Kenneth N. The levels-of-analysis issue is a fairly large one in IR and comparative politics.