Reason for Failure in Foreign Policy; Overstretched Military, John Mearsheimer
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 01/02/2022

John Mearsheimer 3 fundamental mistakes.
1. Misunderstood the terror threat.
2. America did not have a healthy appreciation of the limits of military force.
3. Remarkably, America did not understand how difficult it would be to spread democracy at the end of a Riffle Burrel.


John Joseph Mearsheimer discusses types of grand strategy.
1. Isolationism 
2. Offshore balance 
3. Selective engagement
4. global domination
John Joseph Mearsheimer puts up a case for isolationism but disagrees with it.John is a realist.


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. John has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

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.

Mearsheimer based his theory on five core assumptions: (1) the international system is anarchic (there is no authority that exists above the states to arbitrate their conflicts), (2) all states have some military capability (however limited), (3) states can never fully ascertain the intentions of other states, 

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