The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
Written by: Burak Elmalı
The book is supportive of the claim that any deviation from the operating principles of realism will result in failure.
The book ‘The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities’, by John J. Mearsheimer, a prominent international relations scholar within the realist tradition, provides a comprehensive outlook regarding US foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War. The main question he explores in the book has to do with what happens when a global hegemon pursues a foreign policy based on the principles of liberalism, rather than realism.
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Burak Elmalı
Burak Elmali is a Researcher at TRT World Research Centre in Istanbul. He holds an MA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University. His research areas include the geopolitics of interconnectivity, the concept of great power competition between the U.S. and China and its manifestation in the Gulf. His works were published in various media outlets and he appears in TV as a guest interviewee.
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