Why We Failed in Afghanistan,Iraq and the Broader Middle East, John Mearsheimer on Regime Change
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 2022-04-01

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.

Talk given October 17th 2018.
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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.Offensive realism is a structural theory in international relations that belongs to the neorealist school of thought and was put forward by the political scholar John Mearsheimer in response to defensive realism.

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