In this video, Professor John Mearsheimer answers a viewer’s question about why the United States failed for so long to fully implement the strategic “pivot to Asia” announced in 2011. He explains how China’s rise as a great power transformed U.S. strategy and why Washington eventually shifted from a policy of engagement to one of containment.
Mearsheimer also examines how the wars in Ukraine and Iran are affecting the U.S. military presence in East Asia and why military resources are increasingly being pulled away from the region. Can Washington really contain China under these conditions – or are its own strategic decisions undermining that very goal?
Prof. John Mearsheimer on China’s rise, U.S. strategy in East Asia and the consequences of the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
To read the transcript of the interview: Prof. Mearsheimer – Can the U.S. Contain China?
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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