October 17, 2012
University of Ottawa
JOHN MEARSHEIMER, University of Chicago.
Presented by the Security Studies Network at CIPS.
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the codirector of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He served as an officer in the U.S. military for five years before pursuing graduate studies and receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1980. Between 1979 and 1999, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published five books: Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988); The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), which won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize and has been translated into eight different languages; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), which made the New York Times best seller list and has been translated into twentyone different languages; and Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics (2011), which has been translated into ten different languages. He has also written many articles that have appeared in leading academic journals and popular magazines, as well as a number of oped pieces for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times dealing with topics like Bosnia, nuclear proliferation, American policy towards India, the failure of ArabIsraeli peace efforts, and the invasion of Iraq.
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Le 17 octobre 2012
Université d'Ottawa
JOHN MEARSHEIMER, Université de Chicago.
Présenté par le Réseau en études de sécurité au CÉPI.
John Mearsheimer est le R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science et codirecteur du programme sur les politiques de sécurité international à l'Université de Chicago où il enseigne depuis 1982. Il a été officier militaire pendant cinq ans avant d'entreprendre des études supérieures et d'obtenir son Ph.D. en science politique de l'Université Cornell en 1980. Entre 1979 et 1999, il a été chercheur à la Brookings Institution, chercheur postdoctoral à l'Université Harvard et a été le Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow au Council on Foreign Relations. Mearsheimer a écrit abondamment sur les questions de sécurité et de politique internationale de façon générale. Il a publié cinq ouvrages : Conventional Deterrence (1983), qui lui a valu le Edgar S. Furniss Jr. Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988); The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), qui a remporté le Joseph Lepgold Book Prize et a été traduit en huit langues; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (avec Stephen M. Walt, 2007), qui a été sur la liste de best sellers du New York Times et a été traduit en vingtetune langues; et Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics (2011), traduit en dix langues différentes. Il a aussi écrit de nombreux articles ayant parus dans les principales revues universitaires et magazines populaires, ainsi que plusieurs articles d'opinion pour le New York Times et le Los Angeles Times sur des sujets tels que la Bosnie, la prolifération nucléaire, la politique américaine envers l'Inde, l'échec des efforts de paix israélopalestiniens et l'invasion de l'Iraq.
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