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Why Leaders Lie : The Truth About Lying in International Politics by John J. Mearsheimer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive as well as a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 __New York Times__ bestseller, __The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy__, aroused a firestorm with its unflinching look at the making of America's Middle East policy. Now he takes a look at another controversial but understudied aspect of international relations: lying.In __Why Leaders Lie,__ Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a wealth of examples, he argues that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, so a blanket condemnation is unrealistic and unwise. Yet there are other kinds of deception besides lying, including concealment and spinning. Perhaps no distinction is more important than that between lying to another state and lying to one's own people. Mearsheimer was amazed to discover how unusual interstate lying has been; given the atmosphere of distrust among the great powers, he found that outright deceit is difficult to pull off a
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John J. Mearsheimer
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199792320
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.35 / 5 (176 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
