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

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.

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

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.

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.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.