John J. Mearsheimer

For years, John J. Mearsheimer, that seemingly ageless, if somewhat chilly presence at the University of Chicago, has been a thorn of irritation to certain establishment ideas. With his pugnacious sense of realist politics, he has little time for the sentimentality that accompanies what he calls the “liberal delusions” of power.  It’s all good to […]

By Prof. John J. Mearsheimer • University of Chicago  Feb. 8, 2015http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/dont-arm-ukraine.html The Ukraine crisis is almost a year old and Russia is winning. The separatists in eastern Ukraine are gaining ground and Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, shows no signs of backing down in the face of Western economic sanctions.Unsurprisingly, a growing chorus of voices in the United States is calling for arming Ukraine.