Download or read book Man, the State, and War written by Kenneth Neal Waltz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the causes of war? Waltz probes the ideas that thinkers throughout the history of Western civilisation - including St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, & Spinoza - have offered to explain the reasons for men & related prescriptions for peace.