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The Real School of Foreign Policy
The school of thought that's been the most correct about American foreign policy over the last 25 years is the real school. John Mearsheimer predicted in the early 2000s that our policy of constructive engagement towards China would be a disaster when work, he says. The liberal interventionists are almost as incorrect as the neocons but they're the ones who basically run the foreign policy establishment. It comes back to these institutional incentives, which is if you're a part of the blob, the military industrial complex, the foreign service, the State Department, the think tanks, your incentive is to do things not to be skeptical of foreign intervention.