Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.