40 Waltz, Realism and International Politics, p. xiii.
41 Stephen Van Evera, ‘Primed for peace: Europe after the Cold War’, International Security,
15 (3), 1990/1, p. 36.
42 Glaser, ‘Theory of rational international politics’, ch. 1, p. 24; ch. 2, p. 1; ch. 6, p. 1.
Another option is to view Waltz’s theory as a Weberian ‘ideal type’ that helps to make
the workings of the international system intelligible, but does not explain how it works
in practice. Stephen Turner, ‘The Importance of social philosophy to Morgenthau and
Waltz’, in G. O. Mazur (ed.), Twenty-Five Year Memorial Commemoration to the Life of Hans
Morgenthau (1904–2005) (New York: Semenenko Foundation, 2006), pp. 174–93. Also
see Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), p. 141.
140 Reckless states and realism