{"id":3443,"date":"2021-10-10T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:08:17","slug":"political-realism-of-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/10\/political-realism-of-john-mearsheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Realism of John Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI have followed the activities of John Measheimer for several years. And although I criticized his views on liberal education, I think his views on international politics are on the mark. [But see my caveats: <a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/18\/my-criticism-of-john-mearsheimer-and-timothy-snyder-for-focusing-on-ideologies-rather-than-the-interests-of-individual-leaders\/\">My criticism of John Mearsheimer and Timothy Snyder for focusing on ideologies rather than the interests of individual leaders<\/a>]\n<p><\/p><p>\nHe is the author of the following six books:\n<\/p><li>Conventional Deterrence, 1983\n<\/li><li>Liddell Hart and the Weight of History, 1988\n<\/li><li>The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, 2001\n<\/li><li>The Israel Lobby, 2007\n<\/li><li>Why Leaders Lie, 2011\n<\/li><li>The Great Delusion, 2018\n<p><\/p><p>\nBecause I am interested in escaping from bullshit, I found his discussion with Vishnu Som  on why leaders lie enlightening:<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9URFBibUMPg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>\nAlso, the following discussion of his book, The Great Delusion, pretty much summarizes Mearsheimer&#8217;s views on international affairs:\n<\/p><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFtsg3jgH1Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have followed the activities of John Measheimer for several years. And although I criticized his views on liberal education, I think his views on international politics are on the mark. [But see my caveats: My criticism of John Mearsheimer and Timothy Snyder for focusing on ideologies rather than the interests of individual leaders] He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/10\/political-realism-of-john-mearsheimer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Realism of John Mearsheimer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}