Political scientist John Mearsheimer met the Hungarian Prime Minister in Karmelita.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the world-famous American political science professor John Mearsheimer, who is considered one of the most decisive and realistic international relations experts of our time, in the Carmelite Monastery, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister's press chief, informed MTI.

The informal conversation, in which Balázs Orbán, the Prime Minister's political director, also took part, mainly focused on the causes, antecedents and possible outcomes of the war in Ukraine. They agreed that the war in Ukraine is the most dangerous conflict of the past decades, which must be ended as soon as possible, explained Bertalan Havasi.

John J. Mearsheimer is a professor at the University of Chicago, one of the most recognized researchers of international relations, and in a 2011 survey, his colleagues chose him as the fourth most influential scholar among experts in international relations (the third place on the list, Kenneth Waltz, has since passed away). Mearsheimer is the founder of the so-called school of offensive realism, which holds that world politics is a system of countries striving to maximize their influence and dominate others in the absence of power over states, where everyone is necessarily everyone's wolf. John Mearsheimer is the author of numerous analytical volumes on foreign policy, history, and great powers. He approaches world political processes and the role and behavior of states in a realistic way.

Mearsheimer recently published two articles on The National Interest, which were translated and reviewed by our portal.

History will judge the foolish Ukrainian policy of the USA and its allies harshly

Roosevelt and Truman did not show the same restraint as Putin

The review of his book (The Great Delusion – Liberal Dreams and International Realities) published by Yale University can be read here:

Dangerous illusions

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