{"id":57233,"date":"2026-01-20T05:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=57233"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:59:09","slug":"john-mearsheimer-its-not-great-power-politics-its-old-style-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/john-mearsheimer-its-not-great-power-politics-its-old-style-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mearsheimer: It’s Not Great Power Politics. It’s Old-Style Imperialism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from John’s Substack<\/a>:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Below is an interview I recently did with the South China Morning Post<\/em>, which is based in Hong Kong, and is one of the most important newspapers in East Asia. Josephine Ma conducted the \u201cOpen Questions\u201d interview for the SCMP. We discussed a wide variety of geopolitical issues, paying much attention to what the Trump administration is attempting to do in Venezuela and Iran.<\/p>\n

South China Morning Post, January 19, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Questions | John Mearsheimer on Trump and why Iran isn\u2019t Venezuela and Venezuela isn\u2019t Panama<\/strong><\/h3>\n

International relations scholar says US could easily take Greenland, while regime change in Tehran would be more difficult.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3340309\/john-mearsheimer-trump-and-why-iran-isnt-venezuela-and-venezuela-isnt-panama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reprinted from John’s Substack:\u00a0 Below is an interview I recently did with the South China Morning Post, which is based in Hong Kong, and is one of the most important newspapers in East Asia. Josephine Ma conducted the \u201cOpen Questions\u201d interview for the SCMP. We discussed a wide variety of geopolitical issues, paying much attention […]<\/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-57233","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\/57233","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=57233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57253,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57233\/revisions\/57253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57233"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}