For 10 points, give this two-word term for sovereign states able to project large influence on a global scale.
Please make a pun on the answerline if someone gets 15 on this tossup]Paul Kennedy argued that, as these entities increase in size, they must devote a greater proportion of their resources to maintaining that size in a book about The Rise and Fall of [them]. The name for these entities was popularized in political discourse in an 1833 essay about them by Leopold von Ranke. A book titled for these entities argues that their abilities outside the region in which they are located are largely limited to "offshore balancing" which represents simply another form of aggression in an (*) anarchic order. The term "stately quadrille" referred to relations between these entities in the 18th century. The liberal theory of "offensive realism" was espoused in a book titled for the "tragedy" of the politics of these entities by John Mearsheimer. For 10 points, give this two-word term for sovereign states able to project large influence on a global scale.
Please make a pun on the answerline if someone gets 15 on this tossup]Paul
great powers [prompt on European/world powers; prompt on states or countries; accept The Tragedy of Great Power Politics or The Rise and Fall of Great Powers]