Paul Buitink talks to John Mearsheimer, a renowned American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is a Professor at the University of Chicago.
John gives an overview of what offensive realism is. Furthermore he discusses the European Union’s foreign policy and how dependent it is on that of the US. He explains Russia’s strategy and how Ukraine is going to lose with severe negative consequences for Europe and NATO.
He also gives his view on the tensions between US and China and how the situation in the Middle East could spiral out of control.
At the end John discusses the strength of the dollar and how in general things will get worse across the world before they get any better.
Republished from Reinvent Money, April 19, 2024
John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.
He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.