The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.
John MearsheimerThe 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.
John MearsheimerThe most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.
John Mearsheimer