The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Henry L. Stimson Lectures)

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Henry L. Stimson Lectures) by Mearsheimer, John J.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300234190.

A major theoretical statement by a distinguished political scholar explains why a policy of liberal hegemony is doomed to fail In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of