ABSTRACT
Kenneth N.Waltz argues that “a system is composed of a structure and of interacting units. The structure is the system-wide component that makes it possible to think of the system as a whole.”1 In international politics, states are the units and their interactions form the structure of international political systems.2 Processes, in this view, are “patterned relations among units that go on within a system-relations that reflect in varying degrees the constraints imposed by the system’s structure.”3
