John J. Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago. Before joining the University of Chicago, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs. He was also the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations during the 1998-1999 academic year. Mearsheimer is the author of seven books, including “Conventional Deterrence”, “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, the New York Times best-seller “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” (with Stephen M. Walt), and his most recent book “How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy” (with Sebastian Rosato). He has also written many articles that have appeared in academic journals like International Security, and for newspapers and magazines including Foreign Affairs, London Review of Books The New York Times, and the Financial Times, among other publications. He is the recipient of the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association, received honorary doctorates from universities in China, Greece, and Romania, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.