REALISM|JOHN MEARSHEIMER'S THEORY, Foreign Policy & International Relations

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. John Joseph Mearsheimer has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. John Mearsheimer has been described as an "offensive realist" and more so a structural realist. Offensive realism holds that there is a need for security, and ultimately for survival, make states aggressive power maximizers. States do not cooperate, except during temporary alliances, but constantly seek to diminish their competitors' power and to enhance their own. John Mearsheimer's offensive neorealism intends to fix the "status quo bias" of Kenneth Waltz's defensive neorealism.

Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features, and sees limited potential for cooperation.
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Realism is a set of related theories of international relations that emphasizes the role of the state, national interest, and power in world politics. Related Topics: international relations. See all related content → Realism has dominated the academic study of international relations since the end of World War II.

Realism follows the assumptions that: states are the main actors in the international relations system, there is no supranational international authority, states act in their own self-interest, and states want power for self-preservation.

Morgenthau's Realist Theory (6 Principles)
-Politics is governed by Objective Laws that have roots in Human Nature:
-Facts of Human Nature:
-National Interest defined in terms of National Power:
-Interest is always Dynamic:
-Abstract Moral Principles cannot be applied to Politics:
-Prudence as the Guide: