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PS: Political Science & Politics, January 2021

The James Madison Award Lecture: Liberalism and Nationalism in Contemporary America

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs

The Inevitable Rivalry

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Avancer sans théorie

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

This is the French translation of Leaving Theory Behind, originally published in EJIR (2013)

 

Horizons, Issue 14 (Summer 2019), pp.12-29

Realism and Restraint

John J. Mearsheimer

 

La Vela, 2019

Ritorno al Futuro: La crisi dell’Europa dopo la Guerra fredda

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Spring 2019), pp. 7-50

Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 2018), pp. 3-8

Conventional Deterrence: An Interview with John J. Mearsheimer

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol 95. No. 4 (July/August 2016), pp. 70-83

The Case for Offshore Balancing

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

Military Review, Vol. 96, No. 3 (May/June 2016), pp. 27-31

Defining a New Security Architecture for Europe that Brings Russia in from the Cold

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Studies Review, Vol 18, No. 1 (March 2016) pp.1-3

Benign Hegemony

John J. Mearsheimer

Translated into Czech by Sandra Knudsen: https://www.zoobio.se/teaching/2017/06/22/benigni-hegemonie/

 

National Interest No. 139 (September/October 2015), pp. 34-35

What is America’s Purpose

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Akeel Bilgrami and Johnathan R. Cole, Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?, (Columbia Univeristy Press, 2015) pp. 316-333

Israel and Academic Freedom

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Audience Cost and the Vietnam War, H-Diplo/ISSf Forem, No. 3, November 7, 2014, pp.86-89

Comments

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol 93, No. 6 (November/December 2014), pp. 167-171.

Moscow’s Choice

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93 No. 5 (September/October 2014), pp. 1-12

Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The National Interest, No. 130 (March/April 2014), pp. 29-39

Taiwan’s Dire Straits

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The National Interest, No. 129 (January/February 2014), pp. 9-30

America Unhinged

John J. Mearsheimer

 

European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 427-57

Leaving Theory Behind: Why Simplistic Hypothesis Testing is Bad for IR

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

Faculty Research Working Paper No. RWP13-001, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 2013

Leaving Theory Behind: Why Hypothesis Testing Has Become Bad for IR

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, and Steve Smith, eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity, 3rd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 77-93

Structural Realism

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy, expanded ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), pp.vii-xlvii

Introduction

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor, eds., After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, (London: Saqi Books, 2012), pp. 135-153

The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Security Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July-September 2011), pp. 424-430

Realists as Idealists

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Vita e Pensiero, No. 3 (May/June 2011), pp. 23-31

Asia e Pacifico: ora la Cina sfida davvero gli States

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Relations, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 241-256

Reckless States and Realism

John J. Mearsheimer

Also published as "Reckless States and Realism," in Ken Booth, ed., Realism and World Politics (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 124-40

 

The National Interest, No. 111 (January/February 2010), pp. 16-34

Imperial by Design

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 2010)

The Gathering Storm: China’s Challenge to US Power in Asia

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 6 (November/December 2010)

Review: The Best and the Brightest

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The Spectator, (October 2, 2010)

Australians Should Fear the Rise of China

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Blatter fur deutsche und internationale Politik, (October 2010)

China vs. USA: Der aufziehende Strum

John J. Mearsheimer

 

European Political Science, Vol. 9, 2 No. 3 (September 2010)

Why Is Europe Peaceful Today

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The American Conservative, August 2010, pp. 10-12

Sinking Ship

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Leviathan, Vol. 37, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 519-531

Warum herrscht Frieden in Europa?

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The American Conservative, May 18, 2009

Saving Israel from Itself

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 02 (June 2009), pp. 259-273

The Blind Man and the Elephant in the Room: Robert Lieberman and the Israel Lobby

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

Security Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 58-78

Is It Love or the Lobby? Explaining America’s Special Relationship with Israel

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

The American Conservative, January 26, 2009, pp. 6-8.

Another War, Another Defeat

John J. Mearsheimer

 

China Security, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 9-10

Rivalry in the Offing

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Jordan Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 35-44

The Israel Lobby in the United States

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

in Naoto Yoshikawa and Kazuhiko Noguchi, Perspectives on International Relations (Tokyo: Keiso Text Selection, 2006), pp. i-vi

Forward

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Policy, No. 155 (July/August 2006), pp. 57-58, 64-66

The War over Israel’s Influence

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

 

Current History, Vol. 105, No. 690 (April 2006), pp. 160-162

China’s Unpeaceful Rise

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Carlo Masala, Kenneth N. Waltz: Einführung in seine Theorie und Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Kritikern (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005)

Zu Diesem Buch

John J. Mearsheimer

 

opendemocracy.com, posted May 19, 2005

Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq War: Realism versus Neo-Conservatism

John J. Mearsheimer

Excerpted as "Realism is Right," in The National Interest, No. 81 (Fall 2005), p. 10. Also published as "Hans Morgenthau und der Irakkrieg: Realismus versus Neokonservatismus," in Merkur, Vol. 59, No. 677/678 (September-October 2005), pp. 836-844. Also published as "A Case Study of Iraq - Analogies to Vietnam?" in Christian Hacke, Gottfried-Karl Kindermann, and Kai M. Schellhorn, eds., The Heritage, Challenge, and Future of Realism (Gottingen: V&R Unipress, 2005), pp. 139-148.

 

International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2005), pp. 354-359. [My response to five pieces responding to my "E.H. Carr vs. Idealism" piece]

The Mores Isms the Better

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2005), pp. 139-152

E.H. Carr vs. Idealism: The Battle Rages On

John J. Mearsheimer

 

A Debate with Zbigniew Brzezinski on the Rise of China, Foreign Policy, No. 146 (January-February 2005), pp. 46-49

Clash of the Titans

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in G.O. Mazur, ed., One Hundred Year Commemoration to the Life of Hans Morgenthau (1904-2004) (New York: Semenenko Foundation, 2004), pp. 184-196

Power and Fear in Great Power Politics

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2 (2008), pp. 147-152

The U.S. Should Act as an Honest Broker

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud, eds., Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 388-394.

A Self-Enclosed World?

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Policy, No. 134 (January-February, 2003), pp. 50-59

An Unnecessary War

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

Reprinted in Australian Financial Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Germany), Prospect (UK), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Magyar Narancs (Hungary), Foreign Policy-Arabic Edition, Foreign Policy-Turkish Edition, Gestion (Ecuador), Opposing Viewpoints: Middle East (Gale Group); and in Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, eds., The Iraq Reader: History, Documents, Opinions (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003), pp. 414-424

 

(Cambridge, MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs), November 12, 2002)

Can Saddam Be Contained? History Says Yes

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The National Interest, No. 69 (Fall 2002), pp. 13-16

Hearts and Minds

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Michael Brecher and Frank P. Harvey, eds., Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), pp. 23-33

Realism, the Real World, and the Academy

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 5 (September/October, 2001), pp. 46-61

The Future of the American Pacifier

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The National Interest, No. 65 (Fall 2001), pp. 123-129

Kissinger’s Wisdom … and Advice

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 1998), pp. 137-155

The Aims of Education

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1 (April 1998), pp. 193-98

Teaching Morality at the Margins

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in Geir Lundestad, ed., No End To Alliance: The United States and Western Europe (New York: St. Martin's, 1998), pp. 221-242.

The Future of America’s Continental Commitment

John J. Mearsheimer

 

New Republic, December 18, 1995, pp. 16-21.

When Peace Means War

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Summer 1995), pp. 82-93. [My response to four pieces responding to my "False Promise" piece].

A Realist Reply

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Winter 1994/1995), pp. 5-49

The False Promise of International Institutions

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al., eds., The Perils of Anarchy: Contemporary Realism and International Security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), pp. 332-376; Michael E. Brown et al., eds., Theories of War and Peace: An International Security Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 329-383; Karen Mingst and Jack Snyder, eds., Essential Readings in World Politics (New York: Norton, 2000); Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 7th ed, revised by Kenneth W. Thompson and W. David Clinton (New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 569-585. Originally published as Working Paper No. 10 for the Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, November 1994.

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 49, No. 6 (June/July 1993). Review of Deborah Shapley, Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara (New York: Little, Brown, 1993).

McNamara’s War

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 50-66.

The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The New Republic, June 14, 1993, pp. 22-28

The Answer: A Three-Way Partition Plan for Bosnia And How the U.S. Can Enforce It

John J. Mearsheimer and Robert A. Pape

 

in Graham Allison and Gregory Treverton, eds., Rethinking America's Security: Beyond Cold War to New World Order (New York: Norton, 1992), pp. 213-237.

Disorder Restored

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Summer 1990), pp. 5-56

Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Sean M. Lynn-Jones, ed., The Cold War and After: Prospects for Peace (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), pp. 141-192; Michael E. Brown et al., eds., The Perils of Anarchy: Contemporary Realism and International Security (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), pp. 78-129. and Michael E. Brown et al., eds., Theories of War and Peace: An International Security Reader (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), pp. 3-54.

 

International Security, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Winter 1990/1991), pp. 219-222

Correspondence: Back to the Future, Part III: Realism and the Realities of European Security

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 1990), pp. 194-199

Correspondence: Back to the Future, Part II: International Relations Theory and Post-Cold War Europe

John J. Mearsheimer

 

The Atlantic, August 1990, pp. 35-50.

Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in numerous places. Also see "Letters to the Editor: The Cold War Reconsidered," The Atlantic, November 1990, pp. 8-16.

 

International Security, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Spring 1989), pp. 54-89.

Assessing the Conventional Balance: The 3:1 Rule and Its Critics

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Spring 1989), pp. 128-144

Correspondence: Reassessing Net Assessment

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Spring 1988), pp. 174-185.

Numbers, Strategy, and the European Balance

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 1986), pp. 3 57.

A Strategic Misstep: The Maritime Strategy and Deterrence in Europe

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz, eds., The Use of Force, 3rd ed. (New York: University Press of America, 1988), pp. 590-617; and Steven E. Miller and Stephen Van Evera, eds., Naval Strategy and National Security (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), pp. 47-101.

 

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 41, No. 7 (August 1985), pp. 158 162.

Prospects for Conventional Deterrence in Europe

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Len Ackland and Steven McGuire, eds., Assessing the Nuclear Age (Chicago: Education Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1986), pp. 335-343.

 

International Security, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Winter 1984/1985), pp. 19 46.

Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in Europe

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Hylke Tromp, ed., War in Europe (Aldershot, Eng.: Avebury, 1989), pp. 71-100.

 

ournal of Modern History, Vol. 56, No. 4 (December 1984), pp. 710-711.

War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975

John J. Mearsheimer

Review essay of Jack S. Levy, War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983).

 

in Ted Galen Carpenter, ed., NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War (Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 2000), pp. 133-138

The Case for Partitioning Kosovo

John J. Mearsheimer

 

ORBIS, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 1983), pp. 285-300.

The Military Reform Movement: A Critical Assessment

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Summer 1982), pp. 3 39.

Why the Soviets Can’t Win Quickly in Central Europe

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Robert J. Art and Kenneth N. Waltz, eds., The Use of Force, 3rd ed. (New York: University Press of America, 1988), pp. 442-463; and Steven E. Miller, ed., Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 121-157.

 

International Security, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter 1981/1982), pp. 104 122.

Maneuver, Mobile Defense and the NATO Central Front

John J. Mearsheimer

Reprinted in Steven E. Miller, ed., Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 231-249.

 

International Security, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Winter 1981/82), pp. 227 229.

Correspondence [regarding the “British Generals Talk”]

John J. Mearsheimer

 

International Security, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Summer 1981), pp. 165 184.

The British Generals Talk

John J. Mearsheimer

 

in "Debate on Precision guided Munitions," Survival, Vol. XXII, No. 1 (January February 1980), pp. 20 22.

Rejoinder

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Survival, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (March April 1979), pp. 68 76.

Precision guided Munitions and Conventional Deterrence

John J. Mearsheimer

 

Prepared for Yale Workshop on International Relations, May 5, 2011

Kissing Cousins: Nationalism and Realism

John J. Mearsheimer

A Memo on the Logic of Offensive Realism June 24, 2011

Sister Camilla and the Anarchic Schoolyard.

John J. Mearsheimer