In this video, Professor John Mearsheimer explains the causes and course of the Korean War and why the conflict changed fundamentally in the fall of 1950. What began as a war on the Korean Peninsula increasingly became a direct confrontation between the United States and China. Mearsheimer examines why North Korea invaded, why the U.S. […]
In this video, Professor John Mearsheimer analyzes the September 2026 summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, where Taiwan, Iran, Ukraine, artificial intelligence and trade were all on the agenda. But why did such a high-stakes meeting produce so few meaningful results? Mearsheimer explores the interests of both sides, the larger geopolitical forces behind the […]