{"id":782,"date":"2024-08-23T04:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T04:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=782"},"modified":"2024-08-23T04:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T04:56:51","slug":"prof-john-mearsheimer-a-destructive-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John Mearsheimer : A Destructive Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof. John J. Mearsheimer\u00b9 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 22 August 2024, I appeared with Judge Napolitano on his podcast \u2014 \u201cJudging Freedom.\u201d We discussed where Israel is headed, given all its internal and external problems, and what the likely consequences will be of Ukraine\u2019s invasion of Russia in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp; &nbsp;I am the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where I have taught since 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Above all else, I am an international relations theorist. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Although I have dedicated my life to scholarship, I have also tried to engage in the policy debates of the day. For example, I was one of the most outspoken opponents of the 2003 Iraq War before it happened. I firmly believe that social science theories are invaluable for making and analyzing foreign policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/hlhX30TeGq4?si=yk1xyCbsiAeW-c1F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/hlhX30TeGq4?si=yk1xyCbsiAeW-c1F<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. John J. Mearsheimer\u00b9 : On 22 August 2024, I appeared with Judge Napolitano on his podcast \u2014 \u201cJudging Freedom.\u201d We discussed where Israel is headed, given all its internal and external problems, and what the likely consequences will be of Ukraine\u2019s invasion of Russia in the Kursk region. ________ 1.&nbsp; &nbsp;I am the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where I have taught since 1982. &nbsp; &nbsp;Above all else, I am an international relations theorist. More specifically, I am&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","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\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}