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Power is the currency of international relations, and states are driven above all to maximise how much of it they control.

Drawn from what John Mearsheimer said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What John Mearsheimer actually said

  1. John Mearsheimer Political scientist at the University of Chicago
    I believe that power is the currency of international relations, and by that I mean that states are deeply interested in the balance of power and they're interested in maximizing how much power they control.

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