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John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024

30. September 2024

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In this video political scientist and international relations scholar Prof. John Mearsheimer and senior UN advisor and world-renowned economist Prof. Jeffrey Sachs are guest at the All-In Summit and discuss the concept of the Deep State and its influence on US foreign policy, the US-China relationship, with Mearsheimer advocating for a policy of containment to prevent China from becoming a regional hegemon, while Sachs argues that China is not a threat to the US. Furthermore the conflict in Ukraine and the dynamics of the Israel-Palestine conflict are discussed.

This video was produced by All-In Podcast and published on their YouTube channel on the 16th of September, 2024.

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VIDEO: John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024


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ABOUT JEFFREY D. SACHS

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocat under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 41 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).

ABOUT JOHN MEARSHEIMER

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.


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