Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.
States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.