Thinkers & public positions

Read the argument behind a public position, how it explains cooperation or conflict, and where it can fall short. Each profile stays within a dated body of work and links its supporting sources.

Thinker · FoundationReviewed 13 Jul 2026

John Mearsheimer

International relations theory and U.S. grand strategy

This profile codes an offensive-realist account of competition alongside later arguments for offshore balancing.

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Thinker · FoundationReviewed 13 Jul 2026

Robert Keohane

Institutions, interdependence, and global governance

This profile codes institutions as durable channels for cooperation and gives later work added weight on legitimacy and accountability.

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Thinker · FoundationReviewed 13 Jul 2026

Alexander Wendt

Constructivist international relations theory

This profile codes rivalry as socially contingent and gives identity its greatest explanatory weight.

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Thinker · FoundationReviewed 13 Jul 2026

Susan Strange

International political economy and structural power

This profile centers structural power in production, finance, knowledge, and the changing authority of states and markets.

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