John Mearsheimer

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

— John Mearsheimer

As we learned during the Cold War, the presence of massive nuclear arsenals does not stop great powers from worrying about conventional…

— John Mearsheimer

The U.S., over the course of the 1990s and the first decade-and-a-half of the 2000s, went to great places to make China…

— John Mearsheimer

I think the United States is a thoroughly nationalist country.

— John Mearsheimer

Even if we somehow destroyed all of Iran's nuclear capability, they will simply rebuild it, in locations that are harder to find…

— John Mearsheimer

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest…

— John Mearsheimer

If you take the long view, Australia has never been able to sit on the fence when there was a threat in…

— John Mearsheimer

A crusader impulse is deeply wired into liberal democracies, especially their elites.

— John Mearsheimer

In the eyes of Russian leaders, E.U. expansion is a stalking horse for NATO expansion.

— John Mearsheimer

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

— John Mearsheimer

Contrary to the conventional wisdom in the West, Moscow did not invade Ukraine to conquer it and make it part of a…

— John Mearsheimer

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that…

— John Mearsheimer

I hate uniforms. I hate guns.

— John Mearsheimer

I believe it is no accident that the world is populated with nation-states.

— John Mearsheimer

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an…

— John Mearsheimer

Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act…

— John Mearsheimer

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We…

— John Mearsheimer

Afghanistan is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare, as the Soviets discovered in the 1980s.

— John Mearsheimer

Moscow cannot afford to lose in Ukraine, and it will use every means available to avoid defeat. Putin appears confident that Russia…

— John Mearsheimer

When you hear Americans talk about American exceptionalism, American exceptionalism is American nationalism at play.

— John Mearsheimer

States that promote liberal hegemony invariably damage the fabric of liberalism inside their own borders.

— John Mearsheimer

Security invariably trumps prosperity.

— John Mearsheimer

Someone who is Irish can have a loyalty to Ireland. The problem is when you raise the subject of dual loyalty, many…

— John Mearsheimer

People are allowed to have multiple loyalties. They have religious loyalties, loyalty to family, to an organization and you can have loyalty…

— John Mearsheimer

Within countries, I believe liberalism is a genuine force for good.

— John Mearsheimer