This book seeks to answer to a central international politics: why do great powers rise and fall? It provides an innovative argument about how domestic politica

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strategy declared t

"A superb book.…Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—Barry R. Posen, The National Interest

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the