The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D27AIAK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great Power History The Tragedy of Great Power Politics is an accessible history of great power behavior since the 18th century. John Mearsheimer is a professor at the University of Chicago. Mearsheimer believes that once countries become economically strong they seek to dominate their region militarily. They “are always searching for opportunities to gain power over their rivals, with hegemony as their final goal.” He calls this “offensive realism.” In the final chapter he discusses the rise of China and predicts that it will attempt to domi. Very useful for understanding some aspects of the world In political science there are idealists and realists. The idealist is driven by ideas and the realist by relative power (e.g. liberals and neocons). The author argues that the only way to understand the relationship between great powers is "offensive realism". The book was published in 2000 and had a poor reception, because the message is kind of negative; conflicts will exist in the foreseeable future.The author considers the theory definitive, but I consider it work in progress. There are only three great powers today (China, Russia, US), beca. Michael Griswold said A Great Power War Can’t Be Denied. The title of this review is the bottom line of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. The central point is not that hard to grasp that the structure of the international system makes conflict between great powers inevitable. But the way he goes about both setting up and giving evidence for his theory, may bend the reader in so many different directions that great power war or the fear of great power war becomes an absolute certainty.I hold a Master’s degree in Political Science and believes that while great power war may o
A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian. Mearsheimer illuminates his theory of offensive realism through a sweeping survey of modern great power struggles and reflects on the bleak prospects for peace in Europe and northeast Asia, arguing that the United States's security competition with a rising China will intensify regardless of "engagement" policies.. To Mearsheimer, great power politics are tragic because the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle