A state's potential power is based on the size of its popul… - John Mearsheimer

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

John Mearsheimer

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John J. Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is an international relations theorist. He is the leading proponent of a branch of realist theory called offensive realism, a structural theory which, unlike the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, blames security competition among great powers on the anarchy of the international system, not on human nature.

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