"It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace."
About Kenneth Waltz
Kenneth Neal Waltz was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations. He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.
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