The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer

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Overview

A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail

Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018

“Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.”—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s World

It is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democracy across the world, foster an open international economy, and build international institutions. The policy of remaking the world in America’s image is supposed to protect human rights, promote peace, and make the world safe for democracy. But this is not what has happened. Instead, the United States has become a highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home.

In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony—the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended—is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad. The Great Delusion is a lucid and compelling work of the first importance for scholars, policymakers, and everyone interested in the future of American foreign policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300248562
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/08/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 135,318
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His many books include Conventional Deterrence. He lives in Chicago, IL.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 The Impossible Dream 1

2 Human Nature and Politics 14

3 Political Liberalism 45

4 Cracks in the liberal Edifice 82

5 Liberalism Goes Abroad 120

6 Liberalism as a Source of Trouble 152

7 Liberal Theories of Peace 188

8 The Case for Restraint 217

Notes 235

Index 299

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