{"id":55713,"date":"2025-10-18T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55713"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:47:23","slug":"john-mearsheimer-talking-spheres-with-jeff-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/john-mearsheimer-talking-spheres-with-jeff-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: Talking &#8216;Spheres&#8217; With Jeff Sachs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/mearsheimer.substack.com\/p\/talking-spheres-with-jeff-sachs\">John&#8217;s Substack<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 15 October 2025, I was on Glenn Diesen\u2019s podcast with Jeff Sachs talking about Jeff\u2019s newly minted concept of \u201cspheres of security,\u201d which he sees as a major advancement over \u201cspheres of influence.\u201d He opened the discussion by making the case for moving to a world of spheres of security and I then explained why I think that is not possible and we are instead destined to live in a realist world, where spheres of influence are part of the warp and woof of daily life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ntkc7AWujEU?si=wbzXZkyjfF6JO683\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from John&#8217;s Substack: On 15 October 2025, I was on Glenn Diesen\u2019s podcast with Jeff Sachs talking about Jeff\u2019s newly minted concept of \u201cspheres of security,\u201d which he sees as a major advancement over \u201cspheres of influence.\u201d He opened the discussion by making the case for moving to a world of spheres of security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1054],"class_list":["post-55713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55718,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55713\/revisions\/55718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55713"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}