Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Hailed as the most influential foreign policy realist of his generation, Mearsheimer and co-author Prof. Sebastian Rosato provide a groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?Together, they discuss the book’s core idea: that states are generally rational in thei...