John Mearsheimer

"Furthermore there's the whole argument that the administration made, that so many people were killed by chemical weapons. Their number was around 1,400, the fact of the matter is that over 40,000 othe…"

"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."

"The optimists' claim that security competition and war among the great powers has been burned out of the system is wrong. In fact all of the major states around the globe still care deeply about the b…"

"In short, unbalanced bipolar systems are so unstable that they cannot last for any appreciable period of time."

"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."

"The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars."

"This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics."