The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities | SOAS University of London

[@harrisonfletcher1254]

Dude this is so easy to understand and very comprehensive. I feel like I know what’s going on in the world so much better now.

[@nickshelbourne4426]

Absolutely brilliant - the only reason Professor Mearsheimer doesn't get more attention internationally is exactly because he challenges the ideology and assumptions that lie at the bottom of consensus reality and received wisdom.

[@adabada6935]

No brilliance, it is just very good knowledge of History and Foreign Politics. But unfortunately he makes this crazy connection between Trump and Wilsonianism? That is outrageous. And comparing Obama to Trump? Inadmissable. He takes liberal internationalism for liberal hegemony and those expressions are not equal.

[@andrzejzelazniewicz8434]

At last someone who has something to say.

[@Tenebrousable]

Don't forget the written promise by Bush for Russians to not expand Nato beyond the Rhein, after the collapse of the USSR, to end the eastern Germany occupation.

[@Tagnar]

Excellent talk.

[@akompsupport]

Fantastic lecture!

[@reckoner1015]

the neo-liberalist project is dying, but still kicking... but there's no way it can win out to a reinvigoration of nationalism now- both in a positive and negative sense.

[@jameshazelwood9433]

what a fantastic lecture

[@glennalberta]

He definetly has strong opinions.

[@nash984954]

Fascinating, and with the tremendous fact it's quite true about hegemony of nation/statism.

[@coreycox2345]

I look forward to reading this.

[@tesfuweldemikael2902]

He tells you what liberalism is, what nationalism is, then he deduces the failure of a liberal hegemony from it. Nicely deduced. But that, in spite of many valid points that he does of course make, is more predicting the past than seriously understanding what happened. It is not just that I have a hard time believing that America was actually trying to spread liberal democracy in choice countries with oil ressources or terrorists in them. Even historically, things are unfortunately way more complicated than he would have us believe. The spread of the nation-state went along with economic liberalism, and liberalism and nationalism have historically coincided, for example in German history, where the nationalists and the liberals were the same movement. Liberal democracy, of course, is not universally approved inside liberal democratic states. Likewise, it is much aspired to inside many other states, including Russia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I do not seem to gather this from his account.

[@Tenebrousable]

If AI makes a 100k radiologist unemployed? What's the downside? They must become doctors or nurses instead, or w/e, if they want to stay in medicine. All of that money that went to schooling and training and paying wages for radiologists? Now may go to doctors and nurses. Automation isn't a problem. It's the solution. There's somewhat painfull restructuring period inbetween, but nothing for the government to do.

[@victormlyon]

Whether or not his thesis holds water, I always turn a sceptical eye on academics who talk with such malicious relish about their "objective" analysis.

[@VivaLaSocialismo]

Succinct analysis of the nature of American foreign policy. If only it was partnered with the subject of state capitalism to a greater degree.

[@simpleravenraven6358]

Entertaining.

[@jackiegreen3444]

Now if only this speaker knew the Word of God. He would understand so much better which way, and to what the world is headed towards. Great speech. Very enlightening.

[@georger6624]

Barack Obama and Donald Trump are saying the same thing to get out of these other countries

[@PleaseNThankYou]

I'm clearly confused! Lol... so I'm a conservative, not totally Republican but NO WHERE NEAR Democrat. So when i hear this gentleman's definition off LIBERALISM, i now wonder, what is so bad about his definition of liberalism. I am writing this comment at the10 minute marker so not having listened further at this point, what am i not understanding. But i will say, i AM DEFIANTLY a nationalist. I believe in my sovereign rights as laid out in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights...the Constitution as a whole.if anyone out there will clear my head about this i would appreciate it. MAGA 2020!

[@partialintegral]

EU spreading capitalism :))))))) This guy should do stand-ups.

[@onekerri1]

This guy just sat here and lied to us for 1.5 hours. The pathetic part is that he's old enough to know what really happened, and what's happening now.

[@susanwood1926]

He is wrong on the Nation of Georgia. After hearing him tell this falsehood, I stopped watching.