John Mearsheimer Explains Neorealism, what is Neorealism?
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 29/01/2022

John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. John is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. John Mearsheimer has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

Mearsheimer's view has been described as  "offensive realism,".Offensive realism holds that the need for security, and ultimately for survival, makes states aggressive power maximizers. States do not cooperate, except during temporary alliances, but constantly seek to diminish their competitors' power and to enhance their own.

In international relations, offensive Neo-realism is a structural theory belonging to the neorealist school of thought put forward by political scholar John Mearsheimer in response to defensive realism.


More specifically, I am a realist, which means that I believe that the great powers dominate the international system and they constantly engage in security competition with each other, which sometimes leads to war.

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