A Conversation on Liberal Hegemony, John Mearsheimer

Talk given October 17th 2018.
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John Mearsheimer gives his perspective on the liberal policy adopted by the US elite.John Mearsheimer addresses the weaknesses to the liberal hegemony policy adopted by the US.When you put the distribution of power, this liberal DNA, and the belief in social engineering, you're off to the races.” Liberal hegemony leads to a “super ambitious and heavily militarized foreign policy,” Mearsheimer continued. “The United States has fought seven separate wars since the Cold War ended.

Mearsheimer is the leading proponent of offensive realism. The structural theory, unlike the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau, places the principal emphasis on security competition among great powers within the anarchy of the international system, not on the human nature of statesmen and diplomats.

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law.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.

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[billfrug]

It wasn't democracy promotion but profit promotion. The talk was all emerging markets.

[jaywray]

"Liberalism is moral syphilis !" - Jonathan Bowden

[azdinz]

Great man, but who's listening to the truth now

[eileenmc]

Whats title of his new book? He predicted we needed better policy about Russia etc and I was wondering why not being interviewed in last month. Caught him on one show.

[justgivemethetruth]

America's not looking too good these days.

[christophmahler]

It's always good to question theory with historical examples - as the _'ideal types'_ are not offering any insight if one never had exercized to apply them on actual, particular realities.

[quovadimus]

Oh, I thought it was do what we say or we will destroy you. Thanks for cleaning this up.

[obvioustruths]

But what if the USA is best depicted as the 'beast with two horns like a lamb and speaks as a dragon'?

[lordmartin]

if want to make the world in american image what sad path ....🤮

[christchinasa]

????where is racisms be fitting in when you defined liberal democracy
??? Is a thing that military options be considered as a means to achieve li liberal democracy

[jeffbetts]

If this man read Fritz Stern's book 'The Five Germanys I Have Known' he might get a little insight into the complexities of the history of the real world rather than the one he has created to support his rather simplistic theory. Many of us are concerned democracy is in danger and I am sure Mearsheimer would prefer to live in a democracy rather than under some totalitarian regime. Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum would look at the same world Mearsheimer looks at but make very different observations. I believe the man is a naive fool.

[TJItokyo]

And what’s wrong with Liberal Hegemony. Why John Mearsheimer hates Liberal Hegemony and like dictatorship totalitarianism instead.