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Since US President Donald Trump took office this year, one theme has come up time and again: his rule is a threat to the ...
John Mearsheimer spoke to Anatol Lieven about his new book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, at a recent Quincy Institute event.
John Mearsheimer was born in New York City in 1947, and he still retains the faint registers of a Brooklyn accent. As with most of his generation, the formative experience of his youth was the Vietnam ...
A new issue of The American Conservative went to press yesterday and is now on-line for subscribers. Our lead feature is a package of stories on the Gaza crisis, with essays by John Mearsheimer ...
Back in February, a few days after Russia launched its war in Ukraine, I spoke with the political scientist John Mearsheimer. A longtime observer of U.S. foreign policy—on which he has tended to ...
Isaac Chotiner interviews the political scientist John Mearsheimer and discusses whether the current war in Ukraine could have been prevented, whether it makes sense to think of Russia as an ...
I was going to blog yesterday about the latest John Mearsheimer controversy, but, well, fantasy football got in the way. As a reminder, Mearsheimer was ...
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, ...
But Mearsheimer’s infamous views on Israel—in the latest case, his endorsement of a book on Jewish identity that many denounced as anti-Semitic—should not distract us from the importance of ...
John Mearsheimer and the Future of the Damaged Liberal Dream. Mearsheimer argues in his new book that liberalism is a truly hopeless doctrine, shot full of contradictions and absurdities.
That’s why John Mearsheimer thinks his understanding of anti-Semitism is far superior to yours or mine. And that, you might say, is the greatest scandal of all.
"The Israeli Lobby," the new article by renowned professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, takes the blurring of academic objectivity to a new level while simultaneously delivering a blow to ...