I'm reading this essay,
http://www.e-ir.info/2009/07/23/comp...d-neo-realism/
in it it says, According to Morgenthau, the struggle for power at the international level is largely the result of animus dominandi, the ‘political mans’ urge to dominate others, a concept influenced by Nietzsche’s metaphysics on the ‘will to power’ (Peterson, 1999: 100-101). However, Morgenthau goes beyond human nature and moves up to the second level of analysis. He regards the state as a collective reflection of political man’s lust for power and the unit which carries out its impulses at the international stage. The state is thus the referent object of Morgenthau’s theory and the agent pursuing power in international affairs, highlighting Morgenthau’s dependence on the unit-level.
I can't really find a reference where Morgenthau regards the state as a "collective reflection of political man's lust for power".
Could someone share any light on this? Although the book "politics among nations" is clearly about state-relations, nowhere in the book do I see how human nature leads to the creation of states?