Background:

John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and Henry Nau, professor of political science and international affairs at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs, discuss on troubling foreign policy questions such as:

- Does America have a grand strategy in the new world of terror?

- Is President Bush’s strategy of dominance and preemption a viable one?

- What legitimates the use of American power?

- Do American values and those of its democratic allies matter?

- What role does the UN play?

- What comes after war, in the Middle East and elsewhere?

Having recently published books on America’s grand strategy, two renowned scholars of international affairs address the pitfalls and prospects of American foreign policy in the new world of terror.  Available at the event: Mearsheimer’s The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: Norton 2001), and Nau’s At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002.)

For more information, please contact Kathleen Reilly at (202) 994-1650 or reilly@gwu.edu.

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