The Height of Western Ignorance, John Mearsheimer, Disillusionment at it's best
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 2022-05-03

The talk was given in Japan.
The date was December 26th, 2014.
Source
https://youtu.be/3ZV97GUdHzA

John Mearsheimer acknowledges that great power politics is back on the table. As such he terms the Western acts as Careless on the eve of great power competition. This is the height of Western Ignorance.

Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, marking a steep escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014 following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity. The Russo-Ukrainian War is an ongoing war that began in February 2014 between Russia (together with pro-Russian separatist forces) and Ukraine. Both nations were members of the communist Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in 1991. Ukraine continues to claim Crimea as an integral part of its territory, supported by most foreign governments and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, although Russia and some other UN member states recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.

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 asserts that China's rise will not be peaceful and that the US will seek to contain China and prevent it from achieving regional hegemony. Mearsheimer argues that although containing China militarily is possible, economic containment of China is not.

John Mearsheimer's offensive neorealism intends to fix the "status quo bias" of Kenneth Waltz's defensive neorealism. While both neorealist variants argue that states are primarily concerned with maximizing their security, they disagree over the amount of power required in the process.

Structural realism is often characterized as the view that scientific theories tell us only about the form or structure of the unobservable world and not about its nature. This leaves open the question as to whether the natures of things are posited to be unknowable for some reason or eliminated altogether.

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