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Man, the State and War Kenneth N. Waltz
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Kenneth Waltz, the most important Realist theorist of the last half-century, died Monday, a few weeks before his 89th birthday. Graduate and undergraduate students have been required to read the works of Professor Kenneth N. In 1959 Waltz wrote in *Man, the State, and War* about three "images" of politics: the individual, the state, the international system. His Columbia University doctoral dissertation was published in 1959 as Man, the State, and War. The levels-of-analysis issue is a fairly large one in IR and comparative politics. Waltz is best known for his books Man, the State, and War (1959) and Theory of International Politics (1979). Kenneth Waltz was 88 years old. Pulitzer Prize-winning The Story of Civilization is, shockingly, currently out of print — but I would also list Kenneth Waltz whose Man, The State , And War (1959) remains one of the foundation texts of International Relations. I have no doubt that nearly every writer on IR who has contributed to OpenCanada has read not one but both of Waltz's books: Man, The State, and War and Theory of International Politics. I wish his family peace during their time of grieving. In his most influential work, Man, The State, and War, which began as a dissertation at Columbia in 1950, Waltz quotes the philosopher and historian R. Waltz for generations - since 1959 when he published his dissertation, "Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis.". Waltz's version was to admit a degree of greater complexity, something he outlined in Man, State and War (1959).