The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

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

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

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

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

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

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.