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As it is seen, questions regarding the units of analysis are of the main lines that distinguish neorealism from classical realism. Refusing the theories, he called, “reductionist” that explain international politics at first level of analysis by human nature and the characteristics of decision-makers or at second level of analysis by the traits of states depending on their geographic location or domestic political regimes; Waltz, intends to put forward an explication of international politics at third level of analysis, precisely, the international system. In his view, individual decision-makers are not important because systemic structures constrain them and tell them what to do. Besides, states’ traits are not relevant as they are shaped by the particularities of domestic field characterized hierarchically not anarchically as do the international environment that lacks an entity having legitimate physical violence monopoly. Hence, what determines state actions at international level are the systemic structures and, in this regard, Waltz’s theory of international relations is, definitively, a determinist theory.