ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a partial solution to violence among individuals, it in itself presents the tool for violence between societies. For preventing violence amongst individuals, not only the establishment of state authority seems warranted, but the establishment and maintenance of 'good governance'. It seems, the good state not only serves for preventing war and violence amongst its citizens, but also serves for increased peace internationally. Waltz sees human nature, represented in each individual in essence but ever changed in its specific expression, as the original cause of war. Waltz strongly favours the state as the primary solution to the problem of violence among humans. The existing level of global institutionalism seems strong enough to connect many, if not most, states in today's world in relations of mutual exchange and trust-building interactions. Of course, global governance does not reach as far as world-stateism, even if normative calls for such have been made.
