In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

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

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

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.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.