ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book sets out to reflect on Man, the State and War and to investigate where its contribution is to be found for today. It discusses human nature in connection to violence. Similarly, on the international level, we need good global governance, global governance that addresses inequalities and thereby promotes the absence of violence. Inequality has been found to occur all through the literature on violence, from crime to civil wars. Inequality has been shown repeatedly to be a strong contributor to violence, on the individual and on the inter-state level. Another approach to global governance is the concept of a world state. At the same time, the conceptual and operational challenges of global governance are formidable. The closest Realists get to global governance is by assuming with Gilpin that a global hegemon takes over organizing international affairs.
