Why John Mearsheimer is wrong about realism, great power politics and history
In this video, I review the celebrated international relations scholar, John Mearsheimer. I offer you some reasons to think that -- great thinker though he is -- John Mearsheimer might be wrong about realism and world history.
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Since 2022, John Mearsheimer’s lecture on the folly of USA policy towards Ukraine has gathered 30 million views on YouTube - for a university lecture! He said the USA was “leading Ukraine down the primrose path“ and that “Ukraine would get wrecked“. He was not wrong about that.
But his theory of “offensive realism“? And his model of international relations? Is diplomacy really a dog-eat-dog world? Is Mearsheimer’s realism really realistic?
Let’s talk about it on the Burning Archive.
Links to Mearsheimer videos on YouTube
Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault
Harper Lecture with John J. Mearsheimer: Can China Rise Peacefully?
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