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

54% of Independent voters and 46% of swing state voters agree that there is a war on women, while 67% of Black men and 63% of Hispanic women agree there is a war on women. 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. Kenneth Waltz, the most important Realist theorist of the last half-century, died Monday, a few weeks before his 89th birthday. Waltz is best known for his books Man, the State, and War (1959) and Theory of International Politics (1979). His Columbia University doctoral dissertation was published in 1959 as Man, the State, and War. Some of you might have seen the summer 2009 issue of International Relations; a retrospective on Man, the State, and War, by Kenneth Waltz, and its fiftieth anniversary. In the January 28th issue, The State named Charlie Justice “North Carolina's Man of the Year for 1949,” with a Morton portrait of the Justice family on the cover. Kenneth Waltz was 88 years old. There is a significant portion of the US voting population that rejects the idea of man and the state on which the welfare state is predicated, and in doing so, traces its roots to America's unique founding idea. I wish his family peace during their time of grieving. One might think its strange to do a book review on a work published over 40 years ago, but too bad, I just finished Kenneth Waltz's 'Man, the State, and War' two days ago, so deal with it!