John Mearsheimer bibliography

The following below is a bibliography of works by American political scientist and international scholar John Mearsheimer.

Articles[edit]

• "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin." Foreign Affairs, vol. 93, no. 5 (Sep.-Oct. 2014), pp. 77–89. JSTOR 24483306.

Books[edit]

• Conventional Deterrence. Cornell University Press. 1983. ISBN 0801415691. OCLC 9394615.
• Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Cornell University Press. 1988. ISBN 080142089X. OCLC 17953067.
• The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. W.W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 0393020258. OCLC 46678382.
• The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 978-0374177720. OCLC 144227359. Reviews: ^[1][2]
• Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780199758739. OCLC 593639329.
• The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities. Yale University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0300234190.
• How States Think - The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Yale University Press. 2023. ISBN 978-0300269307.

Publications listed in Scopus or Web of Science[edit]

1. Mearsheimer JJ. Precision-guided munitions and conventional deterrence. Survival. 1979;21(2):68-76 doi: 10.1080/00396337908441802.

2. Mearsheimer JJ. Rejoinder. Survival. 1980;22(1):20-2 doi: 10.1080/00396338008441860.

3. Mearsheimer JJ. The future of the American pacifier. Foreign Aff. 2001;80(5):46 doi: 10.2307/20050250.

4. Mearsheimer J, Walt S, Avineri S. Iraq in a box [5] (multiple letters). Foreign Policy. 2003(136):8-10

5. Mearsheimer J, Walt S, Lieber RJ. Iraq in a box [1] (multiple letters). Foreign Policy. 2003(136):4+8-10

6. Mearsheimer J, Walt S, Outen D. Iraq in a box [3] (multiple letters). Foreign Policy. 2003(136):6+8-10

7. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. An unnecessary war. Foreign Policy. 2003(134):50-9 doi: 10.2307/3183521.

8. Dahl RA, Bewley TF, Rudolph SH, Mearsheimer J. What have we learned? Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: Cambridge University Press; 2004. p. 377-94 doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511492174.017.

9. Brzezinski Z, Mearsheimer JJ. Clash of the titans. Foreign Policy. 2005(146):46-7

10. Mearsheimer JJ. E.H. Carr vs. Idealism: The Battle Rages On. Int Relat. 2005;19(2):139-52 doi: 10.1177/0047117805052810.

11. Mearsheimer JJ. Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war: Realism versus neoconservatism. Merkur. 2005(677–678)

12. Mearsheimer JJ. Strategies for survival. Perspectives on World Politics: Third edition: Taylor and Francis; 2005. p. 69-79

13. Mearsheimer JJ, Harrison RW. Realism is right. Natl Interest. 2005;FALL:10

14. Mearsheimer JJ, Rogers P, Little R, Hill C, Brown C, Booth K. Roundtable: The Battle Rages On. Int Relat. 2005;19(3):337-60 doi: 10.1177/0047117805055411.

15. Mearsheimer J, Walt S. Letter to the editor [10]. Foreign Policy. 2006(156):10-4

16. Mearsheimer JJ. China's unpeaceful rise. Curr Hist. 2006;105(690):160-2

17. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. The Israel Lobby and U.S. foreign policy. Middle East Policy. 2006;13(3):29-87 doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2006.00260.x.

18. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. Erratum: "And now for some facts" (New Republic). New Republic. 2006;234(20):5

19. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. Unrestricted access. Foreign Policy. 2006(155):57-8

20. Mearsheimer J, Walt S. Power in context. Economist (GBR). 2007;385(8551)

21. Cole J, Cox H, Judt T, Katz S, Mearsheimer J, Mendelsohn E, et al. Open letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. N Y Rev Books. 2009;56(17)

22. Mearsheimer JJ. Realism, the real world, and the academy. Millennial Reflections on International

23. Mearsheimer JJ. Reckless states and Realism. Int Relat. 2009;23(2):241-56 doi: 10.1177/0047117809104637.

24. Mearsheimer JJ. Realism, the real world, and the academy. Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies: University of Michigan Press; 2009. p. 31-41

25. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. Is it love or the lobby? Explaining America's special relationship with Israel. Secur Stud. 2009;18(1):58-78 doi: 10.1080/09636410802678031.

26. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. The blind man and the elephant in the room: Robert Lieberman and the Israel lobby. Perspect Polit. 2009;7(2):259-73 doi: 10.1017/S1537592709090781.

27. Mearsheimer JJ. Why is Europe peaceful today. Eur Polit Sci. 2010;9(3):387-97 doi: 10.1057/eps.2010.24.

28. Mearsheimer JJ. The gathering storm: China's challenge to US power in Asia. Chin J Int Pol. 2010;3(4):381-96 doi: 10.1093/cjip/poq016.

29. Mearsheimer J. Realists as Idealists. Secur Stud. 2011;20(3):424-30 doi: 10.1080/09636412.2011.599190.

30. Mearsheimer JJ. Imperial by design. Natl Interest. 2011(111):16-34

31. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. Leaving theory behind: Why simplistic hypothesis testing is bad for International Relations. Eur J Int Relat. 2013;19(3):427-57 doi: 10.1177/1354066113494320.

32. McFaul M, Sestanovich S, Mearsheimer JJ. Faulty powers. Foreign Aff. 2014;93(6)

33. Mearsheimer JJ. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin. Foreign Aff. 2014

34. Mearsheimer JJ. America unhinged. Natl Interest. 2014;JAN-FEB

35. Mearsheimer JJ. Why the Ukraine crisis is the west's fault. Foreign Aff. 2014;93(5)

36. Mearsheimer JJ. Say goodbye to Taiwan. Natl Interest. 2014(MAR/APR)

37. Mearsheimer jj. The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis. The National Interest. 2015. https://leiterreports.typepad.com/files/causes-and-consequences-of-the-ukraine-crisis.national-interest.pdf

38. Mearsheimer JJ. Preface. Routledge Handb of Lat Am Secur. 2015:x-xi

39. Mearsheimer JJ. We asked John Mearsheimer: What should be the purpose of American power? Natl Interest. 2015;2015-September/OCTOBER

40. Mearsheimer JJ. Why we will soon miss the cold war. Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace: Taylor and Francis; 2015. p. 18-35

41. Mearsheimer JJ. A clobal discipline of IR? Benign hegemony. Int Stud Rev. 2016;18(1):147-69 doi: 10.1093/isr/viv021.

42. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. The case for offshore balancing: A superior U.S. grand strategy. Foreign Aff. 2016;95(4):70-83

43. Mearsheimer JF. The Future of the American Pacifier. International Security and Conflict: Taylor and Francis; 2017. p. 17-32 doi: 10.4324/9781315251943-10.

44. Mearsheimer JJ. The False Promise of International Institutions. Int Organ: Taylor and Francis; 2017. p. 237-81 doi: 10.4324/9781315251981-9.

45. Mearsheimer JJ. The False Promise of International Institutions. Theories of International Relations: Taylor and Francis; 2017. p. 379-423 doi: 10.4324/9781315236339-25.

46. Mearsheimer JJ. Why we will soon miss the cold war. Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace, Fifth Edition: Taylor and Francis; 2017. p. 16-32 doi: 10.4324/9781315231372.

47. Mearsheimer JJ, Walt SM. Offshore balancing: Une stratégie globale plus efficace pour les États-Unis. Rev Int Strat. 2017;105(1):18-33 doi: 10.3917/ris.105.0018.

48. Mearsheimer JJ. Back to the future: Instability in Europe After the Cold War. National and International Security: Taylor and Francis; 2018. p. 107-58

49. Mearsheimer JJ. Great delusion: Liberal dreams and international realities: Yale University Press; 2018. 1-313 p

50. Mearsheimer JJ. Bound to fail: The rise and fall of the liberal international order. Int Secur. 2019;43(4):7-50 doi: 10.1162/ISEC_a_00342.

51. Mearsheimer JJ. Why we will soon miss the cold war. The United States And The Ussr In A Changing World: Soviet And American Perspectives: Taylor and Francis; 2019. p. 293-309

52. Mearsheimer JJ. The Inevitable Rivalry: America, China, and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics. Foreign Aff. 2021;100(6):48-58

53. Mearsheimer JJ, editor Liberalism and Nationalism in Contemporary America. PS Polit Sci Polit; 2021: Cambridge University Press; doi: 10.1017/S1049096520001808.

54. Mearsheimer JJ. Interview of John Mearsheimer: On the Situation in Russia and Ukraine. King's Politics video interview. 2022

55. Mearsheimer JJ, Rosato S. How states think: The rationality of foreign policy: Yale University Press; 2023. 1-280 p

56. Mearsheimer JJ, Rosato S. Thinking Like a State. Foreign Aff. 2024;103(1):173-9

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