3 Quotes by A.F.K. Organski

We have learned that the major determinants of national power are population size, political efficiency and degree of industrialization. It is shifts in such areas as these that lead to changes in the distribution of power (p. 300)

Thus we can say that nations that industrialize go through a power transition somewhat similar to the demographic transition described by writers on population changes. In the courses of the power transition, a nation passes from a stage of little power to a stage of greatly increased power. For convenience, the power transitions can be divided into three distinct stages: the stage of potential power; the stage of the transitional growth; the stage of the power maturity (pp. 300-306).

The question is not whether China becomes the most powerful nation on earth, but rather, how long it will take her to achieve this status… (1958 n.n.)China… need not to fight to become the most powerful.