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“Preserving power, rather than increasing it, is the main goal of states.”

John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 20

“The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 2

“The cycle of violence will continue far into the new millennium. Hopes for peace will probably not be realized, because the great that shape the international system fear each other and compete for power as a result. Indeed, their ultimate aim is to gain a position of dominant power over others, because having dominant power is the best means to ensure one's own survival.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Preface, p. xi
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 6, Great Powers in Action, p. 211

“Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 4, The Primacy of Land Power, p. 109

“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 balance of power among themselves for the foreseeable future.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 361

“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.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 15

“…If China continues to rise, you better be very careful, because that will drive the United States stark raving crazy….”

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Why China Cannot Rise Peacefully, http://cips.uottawa.ca/event/why-china-cannot-rise-peacefully/

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

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John Mearsheimer

"China's Unpeaceful Rise", Current History (2006) vol. 105 (690) p. 162

“Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 5, Strategies for Survival, p. 163

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 2, Anarchy and the Struggle for Power, p. 43

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 16

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 3, Wealth and Power, p. 55

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 398

“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.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 6, Great Powers in Action, p. 202

“When an aggressor comes on the scene, at least one other state will eventually take direct responsibility for checking it.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 8, Balancing versus Buck-Passing, p. 269

“A potential hegemon, as emphasized throughout this book, must be wealthier than any of its regional rivals and must possess the most powerful army in the area.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 8, Balancing versus Buck-Passing, p. 293

“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 other people were killed with bombs and bullets, before those 1,400 people. If 40,000 people were killed, and that didn't provide a moral justification for intervention, what's the moral justification for killing people… when 1,400 die with chemical weapons. I don't get it, in fact, I don't think there's a moral case to be made for intervention.”

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John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer on America Unhinged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqqzh59sVo provided by the Center for the National Interest. Here Mearsheimer is speaking about the Syrian conflict and potential United States intervention due to the Assad's regime alleged usage of chemical devices.

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

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 4, The Primacy of Land Power, p. 135

“I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 385

“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.”

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John Mearsheimer buch The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Quelle: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 7, The Offshore Balancers, p. 252