Professor Mearsheimer will discuss his article by the same name from the January/February 2011 Issue of The National Interest. In the article, he considers the decline of US foreign policy from end of the Cold War to the "world of trouble" now: two protracted wars, nuclear stalemates in Iran and North Korea, and the inability to bring about a resolution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

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