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Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system.
Mar 8, 2022 · Against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mearsheimer’s provocation is causing outrage. And it raises the question: what is the realism that Mearsheimer claims to espouse? On the one hand, Mearsheimer is disarmingly even-handed. The push for Nato expansion in 2008 to include Georgia and Ukraine was a disastrous mistake.
Nov 2, 2022 · Mearsheimer's account of the Russian invasion and its precedents may be the most prominent realist interpretation, but it is not the only possible one. 13 Mearsheimer refers to himself as a structural realist. 14 Yet his realism differs markedly from the structural realism first formulated by Kenneth Waltz in his landmark Theory of ...
Dec 1, 2005 · Mearsheimer's main innovation is his theory of 'offensive realism' that seeks to re-formulate Kenneth Waltz's structural realist theory to explain from a structural point of departure the...
- Peter Toft
Mar 1, 2022 · Perhaps best known for the book he wrote with Stephen Walt, “ The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy ,” Mearsheimer is a proponent of great-power politics—a school of realist...
- Isaac Chotiner
Offensive realism is a structural theory in international relations that belongs to the neorealist school of thought and was put forward by the political scholar John Mearsheimer in response to defensive realism.
Nov 17, 2022 · Mearsheimer, a dedicated realist, had been making a version of this argument for some time. In 2014, when Putin annexed Crimea and offered support to separatists in Eastern Ukraine, Mearsheimer...
