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To: LindyBill who wrote (54815)	10/26/2002 12:28:19 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mearsheimer, I'm now being taught, is one of the biggies in the realism field. I started reading Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations book while waiting in the doctor's office yesterday. Huntington does a very nice job of underlining the importance of paradigms in social science thinking and in policy analysis drawing on Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. And, in the course of that treatment, marches through what he considers to be the dominant paradigms of the early 90s by way of introducing his own. During that he discusses the "statist" paradigm and offers Mearsheimer as the principal spokesperson. Huntington is, of course, trying to make the point that future lines of conflict are more likely to fall along civilizational lines than state lines and draws on M's prediction that the Ukraine needs to have nuclear weaponry to protect itself against expanionist aims of Russia. Huntington argues, to the contrary, that one needs to look within the Ukraine to see the fault lines between Orthodox eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine. So, a long way to say simply that Mearsheimer is an authority. As for the quote you offer, Miller notes how the US tried to expand its dominance in South American, etc.