October 18, 2002

Foreign-Policy 'Realists' Are Unrealistic on Iraq

By ROBERT J. LIEBER

A group of international-relations scholars has recently published an ad in The New York Times opposing war with Iraq. Many, although not all, of the 33 signatories are prominent figures in the contemporary-realist approach to world affairs, especially the statement's main authors, John J. Mearsheimer, of the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, of Harvard University.

The authors assert that Saddam Hussein's Iraq is not cooperating with the Al Qaeda terrorists, that even should

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