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Category Archives: John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer and the Hero System of the Cold Look
A tall man stands at a lectern in a university hall. Gray hair, the unshowy tweed of a senior professor who stopped thinking about clothes decades ago. John J. Mearsheimer (b. 1947) speaks in flat declaratives, the cadence of a … Continue reading
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The Great Delusion
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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The Buffered Identity
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For IR Scholar John J. Mearsheimer
Stephen P. Turner (b. 1951) studies how groups hold beliefs that do a job whether or not the beliefs hold up as descriptions of the world. A belief can coordinate a group, lower internal friction, keep a coalition together, and … Continue reading
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The First Gulf War
John Mearsheimer views the First Gulf War as a classic case of limited war managed with realism. He argues that expelling Iraq from Kuwait was a necessary act of power politics to prevent Saddam Hussein from dominating the regional oil … Continue reading
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer (2018)
Gemini says: John Mearsheimer uses The Great Delusion to argue that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy of spreading democracy and human rights, is a failure because nationalism and realism always remain more powerful forces. Through the lens of David Pinsof’s … Continue reading
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Decoding The Neorealist Theory Of Offensive Realism
Wikipedia says: [John J.] Mearsheimer is the leading proponent of the neorealist theory of offensive realism. The structural theory, unlike the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, places the principal emphasis on security competition among great powers within the anarchy of … Continue reading
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The Great Delusion
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Why Does John Mearsheimer Sound Unhinged About Israel?
LF: “John Mearsheimer sounds different when he talks/writes on Israel. Suddenly, he’s morally outraged. Outside of Israel, Mearsheimer is all about realism free from morality. How is his book The Israel Lobby similar to and different from his other books?” … Continue reading
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Understanding Israel’s War In Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato write in their 2023 book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy: …when states believe their survival is at stake, they do not hesitate to kill large numbers of civilians if such murderous … Continue reading
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