John Mearsheimer,as Secretary of State immediate changes to US Foreign Policy #realist
Channel: International Relations & Politics
Date: 2022-05-06

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

The context
During his visit in Japan, John Mearsheimer is asked what he would do as Secretary of State.
John Mearsheimer in the video provides his response.

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.

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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