Pre-Owned - The updated edition of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? In clear eloquent prose John Mearsheimer explains why the answer is no: a rising China will seek to dominate Asia while the United States determined to remain the world s sole regional hegemon will go to great lengths to prevent that from happening. The tragedy of great power politics is inescapable.