John Mearsheimer: Trying to Comprehend Trump’s Foreign Policy

by | Jan 25, 2026 | News | 0 comments

Reprinted from John’s Substack:

On 22 January 2026, I was on “Judging Freedom” talking to the Judge about events involving Davos and Greenland. In the process, I laid out some of the key elements of my template for understanding Trump’s foreign policy.

John J. Mearsheimer, PhD, is an American professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. More recently Mearsheimer has attracted attention for co-authoring and publishing the article The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which was subsequently published as a book.

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