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.

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

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

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

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

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.