ANDERSON Benedict
‘Imagined political communities are imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.’
AUGUSTINE Saint (Civitate Dei)
‘Even those who make war desire nothing but victory to attain peace with glory.’
AUGUSTINE Saint (Civitate Dei)
‘Even those who make war desire nothing but victory to attain peace with glory.’
BROWN Chris
‘Waltz does not assume that states are self-aggrandizing, necessarily aggressive bodies, but he does assume that they desire to preserve themselves’
FUKUYAMA Francis
‘Waltz does not assume that states are self-aggrandizing, necessarily aggressive bodies, but he does assume that they desire to preserve themselves’
FUKUYAMA Francis
‘We do not want to replace national sovereignty with unaccountable international organisations; the UN is not now nor ever will be an effective, legitimate seat of global governance.’
‘On the other hand, we do not now have an adequate set of horizontal mechanisms of accountability between the vertical stovepipes we call states – adequate, that is, to match the intense economic and social interpenetration that we characterize today as globalization.’
FRIED John
International law is not really law at all but merely a ‘weak and defenceless’ construct with little or no practical use.
HOBBES Thomas
‘Kings and persons of sovereign authority are in continual jealousies and in the posture of gladiators with their weapons pointing and eyes fixed on one another’
HOGG Quintin
‘It is right to fight for one’s own king and country, but it is against nature to die for someone else’s.’
KENNEDY Paul
HOBBES Thomas
‘Kings and persons of sovereign authority are in continual jealousies and in the posture of gladiators with their weapons pointing and eyes fixed on one another’
HOGG Quintin
‘It is right to fight for one’s own king and country, but it is against nature to die for someone else’s.’
KENNEDY Paul
'Among the Great Powers, the US was the only country which became richer - in fact, far richer - rather than poorer because of the war . . . economically, the world was its oyster.' (From Rise & Fall of the Great Powers)
KEOHANE Robert
'States no longer have the monopoly on means of mass destruction: more people died in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon thatn in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.'
KRAUTHAMMER Charles
For a national leader ‘thinking with one’s heart is a serious offence. Foreign policy is not social work.’
De MAISTRE Joseph
‘The exterminating angel revolves like the sun around this unhappy planet and only lets one nation relax temporarily in order to smite another.’
MARX Karl
‘Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.’
MORGENTHAU Hans J
‘All history shows that nations active in international politics are continuously preparing for, involved in or recovering from organised violence in the form of war.’
MORRIS Desmond
‘Nothing helps a leader like a good war.’ (From The Human Zoo)
NORTHEDGE F S
‘The state is an imperialistic animal, just as the beaver is a dam-building animal.’
OBAMA Barack
‘A threat that rises above all others in urgency.’ (on nuclear proliferation)
RICE Condoleezza
‘We recognize that democratic state building is now an urgent component of our national interest.'
SPINOZA Baruch
A man alone is ‘overcome by sleep, afflicted by disease and finally prostrated by old age’.
WENDT Alexander
‘We recognize that democratic state building is now an urgent component of our national interest.'
SPINOZA Baruch
A man alone is ‘overcome by sleep, afflicted by disease and finally prostrated by old age’.
WENDT Alexander
‘Self-help and power politics do not follow either logically or causally from anarchy and if today we find ourselves in a self-help world, it is due to process not structure.’
