Thursday, April 16, 2026 @ 6:00 PM, Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna Blvd. SW

The Program: US Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World

The United States operated in a unipolar world from about 1992 to 2017, where it was the only great power on the planet. That world went away when China and Russia became great powers and the United States entered into a much more dangerous multipolar world that will be with us for a long time to come. This talk will examine the contours of the multipolar world we now live in and explain why it is fraught with danger.

Presenter: John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. Among his seven books, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001, 2014) won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize and has been translated into eleven languages; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), made the New York Timesbestseller list and has been translated into twenty-six languages; and The Great Delusion: Liberal Ideals and International Realities (2018), won the 2019 Best Book of the Year Award from the Valdai Discussion Conference, Moscow and has been translated into eleven languages. His latest book is How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (with Sebastian Rosato, 2023), which has been translated into eleven languages. He has also written numerous articles and op-eds that have appeared in International Security, The Economist, The London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”

Thursday, April 16, 2026 – 6:00 PM
Albuquerque Country Club, 601 Laguna SW