"To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other."
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Chapter II, The First Image, p. 38
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Kenneth Waltz
Kenneth Neal Waltz (June 8, 1924 β May 12, 2013) was a member of the faculty at the University of California and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations (IR) of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory.
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