The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Condition:Like New ” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old

” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned

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To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Condition:Like New ” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-oldA decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian. To Mearsheimer, great power politics are tragic because the anarchy of the international