{"id":380687,"date":"2018-10-12T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-mearsheimer-and-stephen-cohen\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:35:24","slug":"john-mearsheimer-and-stephen-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/john-mearsheimer-and-stephen-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><em>In New York City on September 20, 2018, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4ZUDja9SnI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4ZUDja9SnI\">Intelligence Squared<\/a>\u00a0hosted a debate of critical importance in helping one understand much of what we are currently seeing on the global scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The debate developed along three main questions. The first was on the role of NATO (\u201cNATO is no longer fit for purpose\u201d), the second was about Russia (\u201cThe Russian threat is overblown\u201d), and the third was on Iran (\u201cIt\u2019s time to take a hard line on Iran\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>To discuss these important issues, five very special guests were invited, namely: Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and former US Assistant Secretary of Defense; Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies and History, New York University; Reuel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former CIA Analyst; John J. Mearsheimer, American Political Scientist &amp; Professor at the University of Chicago; and Kori Schake, Deputy Director-General at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the panel, one immediately notices how Cohen and Mearsheimer were invited to bring a realist point of view to the discussion, as opposed to the other three who have an interventionist view of American foreign policy, viewing the United States as the indispensable nation. Cohen and Mearsheimer have worked for years, if not decades, to explain to American and international audiences how Washington\u2019s hegemonic policies have accelerated the end of the US unipolar moment as well as spawned chaos around the world.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton\/dp\/0062872745?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0062872745\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51bcQvf%2B-pL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Russia-Hoax-Illicit-Hillary-Clinton\/dp\/0062872745?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=0062872745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Russia Hoax: The I&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Gregg Jarrett<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$14.49<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$12.63<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 11:55 EDT &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0062872745&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Cohen, and especially Mearsheimer, are pure realists. Without going into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/10\/no_author\/john-mearsheimer-and-stephen-cohen-take-on-the-delusional-neocon-neoliberal-establishment-in-a-vital-debate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City on September 20, 2018, the\u00a0Intelligence Squared\u00a0hosted a debate of critical importance in helping one understand much of what we are currently seeing on the global scene. The debate developed along three main questions. The first was on the role of NATO (\u201cNATO is no longer fit for purpose\u201d), the second was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}