John Mearsheimer: Why Liberal Democracy is Over!

It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build institutions. This policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has ended up as a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home. Mearsheimer tells us why this has happened.

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities was a talk given by Professor John J Mearsheimer at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London on 21 January 2019.

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[iviewthetube]

Agree with him, or disagree with him -- this was a great talk.

[atulshrivastava]

Listening this in Feb-2022, and it makes sense.... Very good perspective sir...🙏

[AddisonLerwill]

This guy is awesome. Wise and straightforward.

[MoonBurn]

This guy is interesting. Will probably watch this again. One of your best in awhile, Phil, thanks.

[elmecanico]

Outstanding analysis... Great american intellectual..

[elpidagiallagi]

Your title is wrong.
He's talking about liberal hegemony being over not democracy.
Is it a mistake or a clickbait?
Fix it

[temperateortropical]

Just under 75 years of prosperity is at its end. The luckiest Americans were born in 1946.

[magellan]

A great segment on this topic from the professor. He’s really on a roll here and still sharp as a tack in his 70s. I’ve learned so much from his YouTube videos and hope he lives to 100 so he can keep providing his uniquely insightful commentary.

[cryptonymus]

Good riddance. To hell with globalism too.

[audience]

None of them were truly committed to victory like the sides were in WWII. They would have just killed all resistance if the stakes were high.

[patmoran]

We need a modernized political philosophy. Machiavelli is getting pretty stale with the lack of recognition that there is no upper limit to the value of human ideas. That is, given the right philosophical approach regarding supremacy of human moral progress, governing societies can continue with an infinity of improvement depending on what people think and do.

[Moribus_Artibus]

8:23 "People are mainly interested in security, not individual rights"

[XplusX]

He's right and Francis Fukuyama will be seen as an idiot for forever in history. End of history right? Wrong.

[vonneely]

Imagine an alternate timeline wherein Lewis Black became a political scientist instead of comedian...

[youtubeuni]

What does he mean “overselling of individual rights?” Seems to me like they sell collectivism.

[tacitustoday]

When American forces arrive in Kabul or Tehran what do they do first? Fix the power or water, NAH, not a chance...they set up a lesbian counseling service. So progressive...so helpful

[hrbeta]

So according to this video’s title, Liberal Hegemony = Liberal Democracy?

[TC-lbgl]

America will always be engaged in hot military action, somewhere in the world for 2 reasons.
1. Our constitution does not allow for a standing army outside of a time of declared war, therefore we are always officially at war with some nation.
2. We will not allow our officer and NCO and reserve corps to be depleted of people who have actual combat experience. That institutional experience must be sustained.

[MrShaiya]

"Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I think truer to consider him created from animals." -Charles Darwin

[cameronclarkcarltontv]

Dear chap talks like 18 years of occupying Afghanistan hasn't yielded billions of dollars of profits in opium and minerals etc. Weird analysis.