Among the important ideas put forward by @MearsheimerJ about international order: a tripolar great-power system, dominated by #US_China_rivalry; #Russia remains a weaker third pole; #India is the only plausible fourth entrant; #liberal_hegemony gives way to #balance_of_power politics; flashpoints in #East_Asia and the prospect of #nuclear escalation make the coming half-century far more dangerous than the last. He does not expect China to surpass the US, but argues that a powerful China gives Washington and Moscow strong incentives to cooperate, and sees economic, technological, and military power as crucial to the competition. direct.mit.edu/isec/article/…