University of Chicago professor John J. Mearsheimer has argued that it is often difficult for states to cooperate and especially difficult for that cooperation to evolve when two factors inhibit it. The first is mistrust if there is a perception of possible fraud by one of the partners. The other refers to the cost/benefit advantage that states generally seek when contemplating cooperation as they compare what they are investing as opposed to what they are gaining in a partnership. Mearsheimer shows that great powers are often reluctant to cooperate, particularly in the military sector, because of the fear that cooperation may lead to the transfer of technological advantages associated with modern weapons that could foster rapid changes in the balance of power, creating stresses that no level of cooperation can eliminate due to the dominant logic of security competition.
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机译：芝加哥大学教授约翰·米尔斯海默（John J. Mearsheimer）指出，国家通常很难进行合作，尤其是当有两个因素抑制这种合作时，这种合作就很难发展。第一种是不信任，如果有一个合伙人可能欺诈的感觉。另一个是指国家在考虑合作时通常会寻求的成本/收益优势，因为它们比较了自己的投资而不是合伙关系中的收益。米尔斯海默（Mearsheimer）表明，大国通常不愿合作，特别是在军事领域，因为担心合作会导致与现代武器有关的技术优势的转移，这可能会促进力量平衡的迅速变化，从而造成压力。由于安全竞争的主导逻辑，合作水平可以消除。
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