Why China Cannot Rise Peacefully

October 17, 2012 University of Ottawa JOHN MEARSHEIMER, University of Chicago. Presented by the Security Studies Network at CIPS. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He served as an officer in the U.S. military for five years before pursuing graduate studies and receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1980. Between 1979 and 1999, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published five books: Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award; Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988)