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10 MSW, p. 234. The fear, however, is ‘derived from’ the fact of international anarchy only
through the actors’ awareness of that fact. How the actors interpret that fact depends
crucially on the nature of the relationship they are in. See Alexander Wendt, Social Theory
of International Politics(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
11 MSW, pp. 231–33.
12 Ibid., pp. 188, 227.
13 Ibid., pp. 160, 201, 220.
14 Ibid., p. 232
15 Ibid., ch. 3 passim, pp. 119–20, 122–23, 222, 231, 233–34.
16 Ibid., p. 231.
17 Ibid., p. 232.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., p. 235.
20 MSW, p. 188.
21 MSW, p. 228.
22 F.A. Huntingford, ‘Animals fight, but do not make war’, in J. Groebel and R. H. Hinde
(eds), Aggression and War: Their Biological and Social Bases(Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1989, p. 30).
23 A. Rapoport, Conflict in a Man-Made Environment(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974,
p. 114, p. 255n).
24 Huntingford, op. cit., p. 33.
25 Ibid.
26 MSW, pp. 228–29.
27 MSW, p. 16.
28 Ibid., p. 218.
29 Ibid., pp. 218, 232, 234.
30 Ibid., p. 12.
31 Ibid., p. 27.
32 Ibid., p. 28. If Waltz’s suggestion is that human nature therefore has little to do with war,
then so has international anarchy: there was nothing to prevent war in the international
system in 1914 orin 1910.
33 Ibid., pp. 230ff.
34 Ibid., p. 12.
35 Ibid., p. 232, italics mine.
36 Ibid., pp. 54–55, 108, 113–14, 119–20, 122–23, 222, 233–34.
37 Ibid., p. 232.
38 Ibid., p. 235.
39 Ibid., p. 231.
40 Ibid., p. 233.
41 Manning, ‘The “failure” of the League of Nations’, in C.A. Cosgrove and K.J. Twitchett
(eds), The New International Actors: The UN and the EEC, pp. 105–23, at p. 115 (London:
Macmillan, 1970. Originally published in 1942).
42 ‘Meta–theoretical’ in that the moves concern how to argue about causes of war and not
substantively about what causes war.
43 MSW, p. 196.
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid., p. 198.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid., pp. 205, 206–07.
49 Ibid. p. 210.
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid., p. 208.
52 Suganami, On the Causes of War, p. 165.
53 In TIP, ch. 6, Waltz argues similarly.


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