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

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

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

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.

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

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.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.