Conversations With History - John Mearsheimer & Steve Walt

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• TI

  @tikkunolam613 · 15 years ago

  Can you imagine what an example it would set for the world if we were able to find a way to live in peace in Israel/Palestine? All the pieces of the puzzle are there: a shared monotheistic tradition, a shared land, and shared interests.We are closer to actualizing this than most people realize.Peace is in the best interest of all parties involved...it is a non-zero sum game.May G-d bless us with the wisdom to see clearly that peace is a matter of creating the conditions for mutual prosperity.

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• JE

  @jedeye15 · 14 years ago

  If there was a thing called academic bravery or heroism - this guys would be the living definition

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• GU

  @guruapa · 17 years ago

  i study international relations. i must buy this book now

• EV

  @evamerritt9308 · 4 years ago

  I’m listening in 2022.  Why does Israel get $10 million dollars a DAY now in foreign aid?

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• NI

  @Nicer2BNice · 1 year ago

  Yup

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• MA

  @Maino88 · 18 years ago

  This really does mark a remarkable U-turn by these two giants of offensive realism. I've just had to pinch myself to ensure I wasn't imagining it. John Mearsheimer just advocated that, in hindsight, the US should have had close co-operation with Iran. Great to see two giants of realism seeing the error of their previous assumptions.

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• SH

  @Shpira · 17 years ago

  The US political system is in need of reform so as to assure that it works in the best interest of the US populations rather than for those individuals who donate money to political campaigns.

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• HA

  @haupper · 16 years ago

  @4bimmers lol. Sounds like it was composed on a computer the night before the first show aired.

• EM

  @emotionalinvalid · 15 years ago

  The problem is not lobbies.  It is the fact that these lobbies have such an influence on our lawmakers.  There should be a constitutional amendment that bars foreign or corporate lobbies from our lawmakers, and any lawmaker or prospective one who accepts lobby money for election campaigns is committing a crime.  The private and public sectors must be seperate. The fact that they are not is why our political system is so corrupt and disturbing is that it is legal corruption.

• MR

  @MrWhitecloth8 · 15 years ago

  Interesting!!!

• AT

  @AtlasandLiberty · 13 years ago

  A really great book that should be written is one that explores the contrast between the Partitions Germany / Poland  (Poland partitioned many times see Europe Map 1772, 1792,1793, 1810, 1815 through 1920 & Post 1945).  Why in Europe successful  with stability and why Partition in Middle east  went wrong. I argue the Soviet Union's opposite Foreign Policy. Refer to the Book: "The World was going our way: The KGB and the battle for the Third World" 2005. Pages 139-262.

• MI

  @Mister0Alexi · 16 years ago

  @lacarneceria613 <br> <br>it&apos;s true. It&apos;s probably M &amp; W&apos;s most significant shortfalling in what otherwise is generally decent scholarship