A great interview with Prof. Kenneth Waltz
- Piotr Pietrzak
- Mar 28
- 1 min read
if we were to ask Kenneth Waltz for some of his structuralist suggestions in this regard, he might speculate on the casus belli for both outbreaks of hostilities in 2014 and 2022. If he were alive today, he might have suggested that the most recent escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine could have been averted with a slightly firmer response from the EU and NATO in 2008, 2014, 2015, or 2022. Still, Waltz would argue that a peaceful solution between Russia and Ukraine will be attained at some point. As he argued, war in general should be seen more as an anomaly and not a constant feature of global politics, as history exemplifies long periods of peace between wars. So, we should not try to attribute wars to human nature; one would have to identify some other independent variable that explains the relationship between human nature and fluctuations in war and peace.
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