When the US got drunk with power|The Great Delusion, John Mearsheimer, Unipolar Moment #restraint
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 2022-05-01

The talk was given on October 17th, 2018.

In the video John Mearsheimer discusses the post cold war era.This he terms as the great delusion.It was a mix of universal liberalism.John Mearsheimer gives his perspective on the liberal policy adopted by the US elite.John Mearsheimer addresses the weaknesses to the liberal hegemony policy adopted by the US.When you put the distribution of power, this liberal DNA, and the belief in social engineering, you're off to the races.” Liberal hegemony leads to a “super ambitious and heavily militarized foreign policy,” Mearsheimer continued. “The United States has fought seven separate wars since the Cold War ended.

Mearsheimer is the leading proponent 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 the international system, not on the human nature of statesmen and diplomats.

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law. liberalists believe through all these strands and traditions, scholars have identified the following major common facets of liberal thought: believing in inequality and individual liberty, supporting private property and individual rights, supporting the idea of limited constitutional government, and recognizing the importance of related.

realism, in the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life. Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favor of close observation of outward appearances. As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different civilizations.

Realism, in philosophy, is the viewpoint that accords to things that are known or perceived as an existence or nature which is independent of whether anyone is thinking about or perceiving them.

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

Mearsheimer is the leading proponent 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 the international system, not on the human nature of statesmen and diplomats.

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