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One of the greatest global geo political thinkers / historians of our time. I have the utmost respect for this man.

Dude just exudes integrity and intellect. We desperately need more thinkers like this.

Listening to this now is more relevant than ever

John you are legend.

It was amazing to watch and listen the prof. 15 years ago

ANYTIME Mr. Mearsheimer is speaking...whether an Old video or Recent...I'm there!! 22 yrs ago & still very applicable today.

How come he was so credible in everything he said even from that long ago. Incredible Brilliant Professor…

He really had a crystal ball, didn't he? In actuality he did not fall for propaganda that is presented to the masses and distilled government behavior down to their true motivations. He was absolutely correct in the conclusions and these are holding true all the way through 2022.

Incredibly courageous to have been making these statements in the wake of 9-11. Everything he has been saying for years is completely self-consistent and has integrity

Damn he is good! 20 years passed and some of his estimations so true!

I love being able to sit back, relax, listen, and take in the concepts without the strain that reading puts on my eyes. Thank you for posting these videos UCtelevision.

Great conversation. Prof Mearsheimer is a great realist, seeing international relation as it is, without ideological glass.

April 20, 2022. Professor Mearshimer is more necessary with each passing day. The rethorical question is: why it is that we are never exposed to his thinking in most of the media?...🤔

As a man of loyalty and integrity, Prof Mearsheimer was right then and has been right ever since. Liberal imperialism (self-righteousness) of America has created endless miseries both abroad and domestic.

It’s fascinating to see how the professor’s views have remained consistent for so long.

29:39 "we should all be very skeptical of what our leaders say".

Making friends and not enemies is common sense

I find the universe and life to be so complex that is beyond understanding. Life passed by so quickly that the human race must work together to avoid conflicts and war!

Great MEARSHEIMERWAVE track to open the show with.

Thank u for a depth analysis. wish U.S leaders listen to u. The world will be a better place.

The scholarly work of Professor John Mershiemer is of high value and very much relevant to the present day international politics.

Just wow!..I could listen to this everyday and everyhour.. I mean these guys look so student freindly and extremely willing to take on questions unlike my Professor..

This man is such a wonderful peace of intelligence added to this world. Bless him.

One of the best videos i ever watched on the internet

The best. Thanks Prof. Mearsheimer

18 years on from the original air date, Mearsheimer's analysis was mostly spot on - particularly regarding the War on Terrorism. Bush would've done well to heed his advice instead of embarking on the lunacy that was the Iraq War.

He’s been exactly correct with everything he’s had to say.

Mr. Mearsheimer is an amazing human being.

On a personal note, he hasn't change from about 60 to mid-70s. That's a lesson to us.

Very helpful for understanding, thank you!

I love John Measheimer

Wow.Great explanation! 14 years ago. This is called Realism.

54:35 Nice explanation of how to maintain a constantly refreshed world view.

I really agree with Mearsheimer and I wish that people who fall into the usual categories like socialists, anarchists, libertarian, right wing conservatives and so on, would come out of their ossified frames and get interested in ideas that transcend such categories.

Dr. Mearsheimer has always looked exactly the same ever since the end of WWII.

2021, many of the things that this profesor said are being fulfilled... o.0

Thank very much

Wonderful talks

I personally think realism comes closest in explaining the world order or chaos than all other theories, specially the defensive realism. i just wanted to have a say lol but this video was great thanks for the great work of sharing.

Good stuff, thanks UC

14 years ago, this guy predicted everything...

If you want to know the truth about the wars in the Middle East, you should read his work.

beautiful

Have learnt a lot from u sir, and will be dreamt to sit by your side one day.

Brilliant George

Legend

Love this guy. Shittin on the neoliberal foreign policy establishment. Why is his expert opinion never invited on network news? If not working in our state department .

“The biggest and baddest dude on the block.”

JM was dead-on on predicting the outcome of GW1, and his warnings concerning the soon-to-come GW2 (at the time of this interview). the guy just seems to be, without a lot of fanfare or smugness or egotism, the smartest in our collective room. he, moreover, has the courage to speak plainly about our irrational policies respecting Israel, where that state is headed, nay-sayers notwithstanding - his predictive record speaks for itself.

I totally agree.

Dr Mearsheimer is like a time traveler 😮

excellent

He really blew the big question: “What advice would you give to students as to how they should prepare for the future?” The answer, of course, is that they should avoid the (essentially Nixonian) temptation to focus on issues of foreign policy and instead concern themselves with domestic issues. The story of the 21st century in America is how media and other policy makers are making it impossible for all but the most fortunate to live a civilized middle class life. It simply won’t matter what happens in great power relations if non-HYPS folks, have no work beyond pouring coffee, or if they have to cower in their apartments to avoid violence dusky types who’ve been exempted from the criminal law.

It still surprises me how many people don't think Realism is plausible. To me it seems uncontroversial and obvious.

A very fine character. Rarely seen nowadays, unfortunately.

Academic of the highest order.

yeah!

Well this have aged beautifully.

Cool!

Can you imagine what an example it would set for the world if we were able to find a way to live in peace in Israel/Palestine? All the pieces of the puzzle are there: a shared monotheistic tradition, a shared land, and shared interests.We are closer to actualizing this than most people realize.Peace is in the best interest of all parties involved...it is a non-zero sum game.May G-d bless us with the wisdom to see clearly that peace is a matter of creating the conditions for mutual prosperity

China and Russia are weak ? How things have changed !

No 11 Bravo for Mearsheimer! Smart!

he simply didn't anticipate Neocon ideological intoxication after the dissolution of the SU.

I just found out that there are typed versions of these interviews - ahh! Just google the title of the video and there should be a result from globetrotter/berkley.

He predicted USA policy on China 16 years ago 👏👏👏

Nobody wants to question whether "power" is solely based on military might? Nobody wants to argue that economic power might enter into the equation?

Good

Anyone who mentions ´The will to power´ gets a like from me.

He thought about a Russia China immigration abs boarder dispute where Americans would help Russians against China …

Terrorism is an effect, not a cause. Terrorists are always an organized group. Not to be confused with anarchists (loosely organized). Go to the cause, solve it, and that "strain" of terrorism will weaken and disappear.

Smart man

Analysis of this video today? He suggested that a coalition between the USA and Russia will be fostered due to China and Russia rivalry. And other errors. Affer discarding his mistaken advice on terrorism, all the Mearshmeimer assumptions were half a truly prophecy about China and the related international political frame. Considering his 50% efficacious prediction 21 years ago, I believe he has a good performance (despite far from to be perfect). Brasil

If states are like black boxes and all act the same, why does the US tolerate the UK and France having nuclear weapons yet North Korea and Iran have sanctions imposed on them?

If University of California is at Berkeley, then what is UCLA?

Mearsheimer is such a babe! I may actually pass my exams now!!

Leaders probably follow their perceived self-interest. Perceived yes, as it is influenced by their norms and ideas on the world. So yeah, I disagree with Maersheimer, but do think his perspective is a very useful as a perspective on the world and it explains a lot of why the world is at is.

All great models have things to teach us about reality, and all models are wrong! Mearsheimer is correct, realism fails when the assumption that states are the primary agent. With the explosion of individual power on the international plane, transnational corporate entities, global non-government organisations, and structural changes at the international level, realism needs to be augmented with new models.

"And we also sometimes run into evidence that contradicts the theories we have in our head." Failure. That's (most often, anyway) failure. And oh, the suffering we experience when we run smack dab into that wall of evidence saying, "Nope, wrong again!".

OMG!

The truth lesson seems to be tossed out upon leaving the Point

If the US stopped using terrorist groups to fight proxy wars it might just help but he can’t quite bring himself to discuss this

what was the third school of realist... human nature; defensive ; ???

Exactly , militaries don't like putting their soldiers into combat for political or economic reasons... in days gone by. Those military leaders have retired, a newer breed of top command that is completely intertwined with the weapon corporations, John McCain was one of the first of these then bored himself into the congress and sat there for 40 yrs. doling out trillions, thank god gone now but Lindsey Graham and Timmy Kane were there to pick up the baton.

This man has been the same age for 16 years

14 years...

16:41

The host is so good, compared to the trash we havenow

13:13

Can see where SARS2 came from now

Taking into account norms and ideas is a Constructivist view of International Relations. Realists, like Mearsheimer, don't place much value of norms or ideas in their theory.

"Rhetorical Changes". He's very diplomatic ... maybe too much ...

His name is pronounced „Maers-heimer“, not „Maersh-eimer“. It’s astounding, not even Americans with German roots, pay regard to that.

Offensive; this is the theory Mearsheimer himself believes in.

The reason for the lack of aggression from Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, France and Russia is not american armies in the region. I find this argument weak!

I observe, and i think every person in history up to the future subconsciously knows, "where" realists are really coming from (And i observe this is what the likes of mearsheimer don't really realize). If you and they really think deeply about it, they (realists) are actually really coming from the LACK OF COURAGE,... to be IDEALISTS.... (and they, realists, justify it - realism - with all kinds of "acrobatic" reasoning). Most of them voice out their realpolitik viewpoints in the safety of their privileged circumstances - like Nicollo Machiavelli himself. (That's why he, mearsheimer, always say, not verbatim: "I'm very happy I'm living in (the most powerful) liberal democratic country - which ironically is a product of idealism, ...but when it comes to international relations...- he's a realist) His and his et al's IR Old World 19th century Machiavellian realpolitik viewpoint... ...actually HAS to die,... ... WE, THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE ALL KNOW IT IN OUR HEARTS IT HAS TO DIE, "YESTERDAY", hundreds, even thousands of years ago... ... And I think deep inside his (mearsheimer et al's) heart he knows it. But like all (socio) realists, he doesn't have the COURAGE to admit it...because he doesn't have the courage to BE against it (PREVAILING human CONSTRUCTED reality)... And his realist thinking is greatly influenced by his privileged personal situation: a legal citizen of the most powerful nation in the world, and all the privileges and personal SAFETY, it entails. What differentiates a realist from an idealist? COURAGE and Empathy for the rest of YOUR human race. Courage to DESIRE, ENVISION AND USE YOUR GREAT MIND, to PERPETUALLY make things better than what they are, than JUST cowardly accept the social constructs that our physical/biological/historical reality socially CONSTRUCTED for us. Clue: if it's constructed, it can be DE-constructed or changed.

Precise prediction. Russia, China, Taiwan.

he didn't like the military but wanted to go to Vietnam? I don't understand.

2022. Interview 20 years before. @ 44 min. US - Russian relations won’t be as bad in next 20 years. That was wrong. It was bad from 2014 re Crimea annexation.

It should be One World government without border and nationality. Open border people free to work and live anywhere they are plesed. Balance of power never happen if people divide with nationalty, races and classes.