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John J Mearsheimer

John J Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (a href=http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/polisci/mearsh2/ target=_blank>WW Norton, 2001)

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Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war: realism versus neo-conservatism

The renowned American foreign-policy realist Hans Morgenthau (1904-80) opposed the Vietnam war. He would have regarded the neo-conservatives’ adventure in Iraq as equally flawed, says John J Mearsheimer.

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