In this video, Prof. John Mearsheimer analyzes the Abu Dhabi negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. At the center are security guarantees for Ukraine, Russia’s demand for a new European security architecture, and the question of why the positions of both sides appear so difficult to reconcile.
What role does the security dilemma play — and why does Mearsheimer believe the current negotiations will fail to produce an agreement?
This video was produced by John Mearsheimer and published on his YouTube channel on November 11, 2026.
To read the transcript of the interview: Prof. Mearsheimer – No Guarantees, No Peace for Ukraine
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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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