The Great Delusion

John Mearsheimer

Why spreading democracy by force failed: nationalism and realism are the stronger forces.

An argument against liberal hegemony: that America’s post-Cold War project of spreading democracy by force was doomed because nationalism and realism are stronger forces than liberalism, and that the attempt produced the wars and the backlash we now live with.

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