TY - BOOK AU - John J Mearsheimer AU - John J Mearsheimer TI - The tragedy of great power politics T2 - Norton series in world politics SN - 9780393349276 U1 - 327.101 MEA PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - : W.W. Norton & Company KW - Social Science KW - Political Science KW - History N1 - Anarchy and the struggle for power -- Wealth and power -- The primacy of land power -- Strategies for survival -- Great powers in action -- The offshore balancers -- Balancing versus buck-passing -- The causes of great power war -- Can China rise peacefully? N2 - The anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle. The best survival strategy is to become a regional hegemon and to make sure that no other hegemon emerges elsewhere. He predicts that China will attempt to dominate Asia while the US will be determined to remain the world's sole regional hegemon. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable ER -