/lit/ - Literature

>>15644478
Power politics don't need you to be sympathetic to them. Only power politicians

>>15644499
Damn...

>>15644478
What is your criticism?

>>15644871
Israelphobes get called out

>>15644478
Hmmm....

John Mearsheimer

"This book is an embarrassment"

I'm wondering... who could be behind this post?

>>15644871
The quality of thought is childlike.
>it’s harder to invade over oceans
>power can be economic and military
For people who haven’t read the book, these sorts of things are stated as profound conclusions. It outrageously simplified things.

>>15645441
How would you expound upon these points then?

>>15645461
First, at the very minimum, I’d discuss ‘states’, and how they’ve changed

>>15645441
Mearsheimer is one of the best rn. Some of his ideas are fairly simple and seem obvious, but one has to consider that a majority of IR theorists and especially actual decision makers don't agree with him. Up until the past several years the prevailing position was, "throw any considerations about great power politics out the window, we are all trending toward a global order with trade and where everyone follows the rules/ respects general principles of int law."

>>15645750
Or maybe they just said that but not showing their hand like retards

>>15645783
Oh yes if there's one thing academics like it is being publically wrong. Maybe this works for politicians.

>>15645441
The book is over 500 pages I doubt his points are encapsulated in those two sentences.

>>15644478
Holy shit his website is cringe. Is this the power of academia?

https://www.mearsheimer.com/

>>15644499
Just got off the phone with Power Politics. He admitted that though he likes to project strength, he sometimes gets lonely and needs a sympathetic shoulder to cry on.

>>15645883
Academics are generally wrong in the area of politics and economics. They tend to promote an ultra-idealized view that just so happens to rationalize whatever the status quo is.

>>15646059
Holy shit

>>15646059
Yikes

>>15646059
Wow, I love Mearsheimer but this is so cringe.

>>15646083
Even the Devil cries himself to sleep sometimes. Doesn't make him less of a cunt tho, does it?

>>15646059
Based seethe harder trannies.

>>15646059
Lmao

>call yourselves realists
>pretend states are singular persons to make sense of your retarded views
wowsers

>>15646059
This picture is perfect...