The assault marks a dramatic escalation of Trump’s increasingly belligerent foreign policy, despite his having campaigned against war and military adventurism. “I’m not going to start wars,” Trump ...

For a few days last month, it seemed that John Mearsheimer had walked straight into a scandal of his own making, with no way out. Over the previous five years, the University of Chicago professor and ...

How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, Yale University Press, 304 pages First, a surprise: John J. Mearsheimer thinks expanding NATO eastward ...

In mid-October, 77-year-old University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer visited China. He delivered lectures at Chinese universities and engaged in a debate on global order and US-China relations ...

I—China—want to be the Godzilla of Asia, because that’s the only way for me—China—to survive! I don’t want the Japanese violating my sovereignty the way they did in the 20th century. I can’t trust the ...

How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker. By Gavin Jacobson Late at night on 23 February 2022, John Mearsheimer was at home in the suburbs of Chicago finishing an article for ...

A few years ago, The Israel Lobby, by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, provoked a nasty contretemps among liberals. Critics, including me, saw it as fevered conspiracy-mongering that amounted to an ...

"...Goldberg's assault on me steers clear of criticizing Atzmon's book, which is what I blurbed. In short, he falsely accuses me of lending support to a Holocaust ...