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John Mearsheimer

1947 - Today

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John Joseph Mearsheimer (; born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Mearsheimer has received more than 2,091,652 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John Mearsheimer is the 17th most popular political scientist (up from 21st in 2019), the 2,489th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,618th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Political Scientist.

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  • 32

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  • 3.22

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  • 4.04

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Over the past year John Mearsheimer has had the most page views in the with 585,568 views, followed by German (53,023), and Russian (40,754). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Romanian (282.56%), Finnish (64.78%), and Irish (59.95%)

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, John Mearsheimer ranks 17 out of 46. Before him are Benedict Anderson, Gene Sharp, Maurice Duverger, David Easton, Robert A. Dahl, and Joseph Nye. After him are Muhammad Asad, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Ilan Pappé, Arend Lijphart, Norman Finkelstein, and Robert D. Putnam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, John Mearsheimer ranks 169. Before him are Patrice Leconte, Chris Wallace, Jeff Lynne, Helena Vondráčková, Eric F. Wieschaus, and Edward Yang. After him are Christian Jacq, Kōzō Okamoto, Aleksander Krupa, Jaume Cabré, Aad de Mos, and Greg Lake.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Mearsheimer ranks 2,489 out of 20,380. Before him are David Lane (1938), Jeff Daniels (1955), Aaron Eckhart (1968), Jesse Livermore (1877), George Antheil (1900), and Julia Ann (1969). After him are Nan Goldin (1953), Mervyn LeRoy (1900), Harry Dexter White (1892), Sela Ward (1956), George Segal (1934), and Bruce Nauman (1941).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, John Mearsheimer ranks 7. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927), Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Gene Sharp (1928), Robert A. Dahl (1915), and Joseph Nye (1937). After him are Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert D. Putnam (1941), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert Keohane (1941), Graham Allison (1940), and Sidney Verba (1932).

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