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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point, has a PhD in political science from Cornell University and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. Among his six books, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize while The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt) made the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 24 languages. His latest book is The Great Delusion: Liberal Ideals and International Realities, which won the 2019 Best Book of the Year Award from the Valdai Discussion Conference, Moscow. He has written numerous articles and op-eds that have appeared in International Security, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to ‘an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.’

Vishnu Som is the Executive Editor of NDTV. A veteran anchor with more than 8000 hours of live broadcast experience, he anchors the flagship programme Left, Right and Centre at 9pm on NDTV 24x7. He is a Ramnath Goenka award-winning journalist whose work has been recognised by the Commonwealth Broadcast Awards. He covers strategic affairs extensively and has produced more than 30 documentaries for the network.

In his bold and pertinent text ‘Why Leaders Lie? In the Truth About Lying in International Politics’, political scientist John Mearsheimer offers a deep and path-breaking study of international politics, with references to examples from the recent past.

In conversation with prominent news anchor and journalist Vishnu Som, he discusses the need and effectiveness of falsehood within the political sphere, breaking down the insidious and elaborate deceptions of world leaders, with reasoned and constructive analysis of the logic, motivation, and justification behind their lying behaviour.

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