Kenneth Waltz Quotes

War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace.

When Ranke argued that the external relations, of states determine their internal conditions, his argument had considerable cogency.

...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

We think deterrence works. The problem is that, notwithstanding the confident claims of countless theorists, including those reviewed here, we do not really know why nuclear bombs have not been dropped since 1945, or at the very least, we cannot prove our theories and instincts. Was it good statesmanship? Was Kenneth Waltz right, and nuclear weapons really are the great stabilizers? Or perhaps it was just luck? As is often said about the inadvisability of testing nuclear deterrence failures, we have never run the experiment, and we hope we never will.

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