{"id":3714,"date":"2022-01-09T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:21:49","slug":"john-mearshimer-the-american-machiavelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/09\/john-mearshimer-the-american-machiavelli\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer, the American Machiavelli"},"content":{"rendered":"\nJohn Mearsheimer calls himself a Realist.  What does this mean?  If we look at the world as a chess game, then Mearsheimer is either a master observer and commentator of chess, or the coach to an American chess player.  Below are his thoughts in Feb.  2020.\n<p><\/p><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZVIaXFN2lU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><p>\n\nHis thoughts in Jan. 2019:<\/p><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ni9rncx8ceA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\nSee also:<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/10\/political-realism-of-john-mearsheimer\/\">Political Realism of John Mearsheimer<\/a>\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/14\/is-the-united-states-really-interested-in-a-liberal-democracy-hegemony\/\">Is the United States really interested in a liberal (democracy) hegemony?<\/a>\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/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><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mearsheimer calls himself a Realist. What does this mean? If we look at the world as a chess game, then Mearsheimer is either a master observer and commentator of chess, or the coach to an American chess player. Below are his thoughts in Feb. 2020. His thoughts in Jan. 2019: See also: Political Realism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/09\/john-mearshimer-the-american-machiavelli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Mearsheimer, the American Machiavelli&#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":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions","category-international-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}