John Mearsheimer

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer is affiliated with the following schools: University of Southern California, University of Chicago, United States Military Academy, Cornell University

John Mearsheimer's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

John Mearsheimer

Political Science

#43

World Rank

#77

Historical Rank

#26

USA Rank

Public Policy

#52

World Rank

#53

Historical Rank

#42

USA Rank

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Political Science

John Mearsheimer's Degrees

PhD Political Science Cornell University
Masters Political Science University of Southern California

Why Is John Mearsheimer Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

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John Mearsheimer's Published Works

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Published Works

The False Promise of International Institutions (1994) (2447)
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2002) (2178)
Back to the Future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War (1990) (2138)
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault (2014) (625)
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2006) (522)
Structural Realism (2006) (472)
The Gathering Storm: China’s Challenge to US Power in Asia (2010) (449)
China’s Unpeaceful Rise (2006) (373)
Leaving theory behind: Why simplistic hypothesis testing is bad for International Relations (2013) (267)
Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order (2019) (222)
Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War (2017) (206)
An Unnecessary War (2003) (185)
A Realist Reply (1995) (182)
The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent (1993) (173)
Reckless States and Realism (2009) (116)
The Future of the American Pacifier (2001) (108)
Why the Soviets Can't Win Quickly in Central Europe (1982) (97)
The Case for Offshore Balancing: A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy (2017) (83)
Great Delusion (2018) (79)
E.H. Carr vs. Idealism: The Battle Rages On (2005) (78)
Assessing the Conventional Balance: The 3:1 Rule and Its Critics (1989) (70)
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1991) (70)
Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in Europe (1984) (69)
The Case for Offshore Balancing (2016) (60)
Response to C. William Walldorf Jr.’s Review of The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (2018) (60)
Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war: realism versus neo-conservatism (2005) (59)
Why leaders lie : the truth about lying in international politics (2012) (59)
A Strategic Misstep: The Maritime Strategy and Deterrence in Europe (1986) (57)
Back to the Future, Part II: International Relations Theory and Post-Cold War Europe (1990) (49)
Numbers, Strategy, and the European Balance (1988) (38)
Maneuver, Mobile Defense, and the NATO Central Front (1981) (38)
Realism, the Real World, and the Academy (2002) (35)
Why is Europe Peaceful Today? (2010) (32)
Back to the Future, Part III: Realism and the Realities of European Security (1990) (28)
Conversations in International Relations: Interview with John J. Mearsheimer (Part I) (2006) (25)
Why Leaders Lie (2011) (23)
Is It Love or The Lobby? Explaining America's Special Relationship with Israel (2009) (21)
Can Saddam be Contained? History Says Yes (2003) (20)
Leaving Theory Behind: Why Hypothesis Testing Has Become Bad for IR (2013) (17)
India and Pakistan's Unstable Peace (2005) (17)
Roundtable: The Battle Rages On (2005) (16)
Precision‐guided munitions and conventional deterrence (1979) (16)
Realists as Idealists (2011) (14)
American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition (2012) (13)
Nuclear deterrence : ethics and strategy (1988) (12)
The Blind Man and the Elephant in the Room: Robert Lieberman and the Israel Lobby (2009) (12)
Reassessing Net Assessment (1989) (12)
Defining a New Security Architecture for Europe That Brings Russia in from the Cold (2016) (11)
Attacking the Leader, Missing the Mark (2014) (11)
The Aims of Education (1998) (8)
Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: What have we learned? (2004) (8)
An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members (2000) (7)
The Future of America’s Continental Commitment (1998) (5)
The Blind Man and the Elephant in (2016) (4)
Britannia at Bay (1982) (4)
15. Israel and Academic Freedom (2015) (4)
Mearsheimer's Response: "Teaching Morality at the Margins" (1998) (4)
Prospects for conventional deterrence in Europe (1985) (4)
Liberalism and Nationalism in Contemporary America (2021) (3)
Conversations in International Relations: Interview with John J. Mearsheimer (Part II) (2006) (3)
Debate on precision‐guided munitions (1980) (3)
Conventional Deterrence : An Interview with (2018) (3)
The British Generals Talk: A Review Essay (1981) (3)
Has Violence Declined in World Politics? (2013) (2)
3. Structural Realism (2020) (2)
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation (2017) (2)
Mr Obama Must Take a Stand Against Israel Over Iran (2012) (1)
China's Peaceful Rise? (2005) (1)
Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. (1990) (1)
A Model of Cartel Formation. (1976) (1)
The Power of Israel in the United States by James Petras ; The Israel Lobby and U . S . Foreign Policy (2008) (1)
Taiwan in the Shadow of a Rising China (2013) (1)
Iraq in a Box (2003) (1)
Open letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2009) (1)
A Perpetual and Restless Desire of Power after Power (2003) (1)
To Shape Our World for Good: Master Narratives and Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900–2011. By C. William Walldorf Jr. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. 294p. $39.95 cloth. (2020) (0)
"You can only have so many dedicated theorists in any particular field…" (2021) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
11 Diversity Statement 13 Maternity , Parental , and Other Caregiving Leaves of Absence 14 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for 2003 – 04 — (2005) (0)
PSR volume 105 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2011) (0)
Development, Security, and Intervention After Vietnam (2011) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 28 (2015) (0)
Interview with the Author (2001) (0)
JOHN LEHMAN'S "COMMAND" (1990) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 26 (2003) (0)
Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting might not have all the answers for fixing the transitional justice movement, the insights offered by this book provide a good place to start (2015) (0)
Marxism and the Science of War (1983) (0)
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics [Book Review] (2002) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Book Review:War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975 Jack S. Levy (1984) (0)
Grand Strategic Folly (2011) (0)
Introduction (1985) (0)
Clausewitz and the British Generals (1981) (0)

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