John Mearsheimer

John J. Mearsheimer ( John Mearsheimer Joseph, born December 14, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American political scientist.

Life

John Mearsheimer was a member of the U.S. Army in 1964 and studied from 1966 to 1970 at the Military Academy at West Point. This was followed by a Master 's degree in International Relations at the University of Southern California in 1980 and his doctorate at Cornell University.

Since 1982 he has worked at the University of Chicago, since 1987 as a full professor of Political Science.

He is considered one of the most important representatives of the theory of neo-realism in international relations.

Publications

  • Conventional Deterrence. Cornell University Press, 1983
  • Russell Hardin, Robert E. Goodin & Gerald Dworkin (ed.): Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy. University of Chicago Press, 1985
  • Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Cornell University Press, 1988
  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Norton, 2001
  • Stephen M. Walt: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN 0-374-17772-4 The Israel Lobby. How American foreign policy is affected. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2007, ISBN 3-5933-8377-2
  • Lie! The Value of untruth. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39469-5

Article

  • Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War. In: International Security. Vol 15, No. 4, Summer 1990, pp. 5-56 (PDF, 5.49 MB )
  • The False Promise of International Institutions. In: International Security. Vol 19, No. 3, Winter 1994/1995, pp. 5-49 (PDF, 5.592 MB) A Realist Reply. In: International Security. Vol 20, No. 1, Summer 1995, pp. 82-93 (PDF, 1.986 MB)
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