John Mearsheimer
University of Chicago political scientist; the main voice of offensive realism.
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- John Mearsheimer is an American international relations scholar at the University of Chicago.
- He developed offensive realism, a theory that great powers seek regional hegemony in an anarchic system.
- He set it out in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001).
- He co-wrote The Israel Lobby and U.S.
- Foreign Policy (2007) and wrote The Great Delusion (2018).
- He served in the US Air Force before his doctorate at Cornell.
Key facts
- Born
- 14 December 1947, Brooklyn, New York1
- Position
- Faculty, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, from 19821
- Education
- BS, US Military Academy (1970); MA, University of Southern California (1974); MA and PhD in government, Cornell (1978, 1981)1
- Military
- US Air Force officer, 1970 to 19751
- Theory
- Offensive realism1
- Books
- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001); The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007); The Great Delusion (2018)1
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