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RPI Conference 2024 - John Mearsheimer

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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John Mearsheimer: 'The Limits of Military Power in International Anarchy'

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Our next speaker is an international relations scholar.

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He's very well known for his books,

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especially the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

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and the tragedy of great power politics.

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He's a distinguished professor at the University of Chicago since 1982.

0:19.0

Please welcome John Meersheimer. Thank you very much for the kind introduction. It's a great pleasure and an honor to be here.

0:42.0

I appreciate all the people who've come up to be and

0:45.3

talk to me and I look forward to talking to you about international anarchy and the limits of military power.

0:55.0

What I want to do here is I want to explain to you why I believe

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that international anarchy means that the United States will always have a very large and powerful military.

1:10.0

And then I want to talk about what the limits are regarding how you use that military.

1:18.0

So to start, what do I mean by international anarchy? As I'm sure many of you in the audience know,

1:27.0

international anarchy is a catch word for saying that in international politics there is no higher authority that

1:36.9

sits above states that can rescue them if they get into trouble.

1:43.8

The international system is basically comprised of states.

1:49.0

States are the principal actors in international politics.

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So anarchy in the lexicon of international relations scholars

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is the opposite.

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It's the opposite of hierarchy.

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Right?

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If you live inside the United States, you have hierarchy.

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You have a state that is very powerful that sits above you. It has a police force

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