{"id":2477,"date":"2025-10-22T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:51:07","slug":"jjms-explorations-on-war-john-j-mearsheimer%c2%b9-14-oct-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"JJM&#8217;s &#8220;Explorations On War&#8221;, John J. Mearsheimer\u00b9, 14 Oct 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Core takeaway&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We explore the strategic dynamics of security competition between states and how they seek to mitigate the distinct threat that war poses to their survival.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at the University of Chicago :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 15 July 2025, I did an interview with Professor William Hurst, who teaches at Cambridge University and co-directs its Centre for Geopolitics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had what I thought was an excellent discussion about war and international politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/mearsheimer\/p\/jjms-explorations-on-war?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1sxk3k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/mearsheimer\/p\/jjms-explorations-on-war?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1sxk3k<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core takeaway&nbsp; We explore the strategic dynamics of security competition between states and how they seek to mitigate the distinct threat that war poses to their survival. 1. John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago : On 15 July 2025, I did an interview with Professor William Hurst, who teaches at Cambridge University and co-directs its Centre for Geopolitics. We had what I thought was an excellent discussion about war and international politics. https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/mearsheimer\/p\/jjms-explorations-on-war?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=1sxk3k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}