John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism
The official podcast of Prof. John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer - Offensive Realism
Latest Episodes
Episode 7: A Must Read Book on the Israel Lobby
Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick have just published a terrific new book called Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power. It appears twenty years after Steve Walt and I published “The Israel Lobby” in The London Review of Books (March ...
Episode 6: Why Ukraine Is Doomed
In recent months, Western news coverage of the Ukraine war tells us that Russia is suffering huge casualties on the battlefield while making hardly any progress capturing Ukrainian territory. At the same time, Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks...
Episode 5: The False Promise of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
There is considerable evidence that the US is interested in “expanding its options” for using its nuclear arsenal. In particular, it appears that the Pentagon would like to increase its reliance on tactical nuclear weapons for both deterrence a...
Episode 4: The MOU Is Dead! Can a Blockade Save Us?
The June 17, 2026, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) expired today – August 17, 2026. The US has not achieved any of its initial objectives. It is now mainly concerned with opening the Strait of Hormuz without having to accept Iran’s far-reachi...