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

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.

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

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

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

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

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