Mearsheimer Profile; Chicago vs. Harvard

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:47:35 +0000

Too some degree, but the Harris School seems to place much more value on research and analysis (‘thinking’) than policy practice or politics (‘doing’). As policy schools go, it is quite theoretical. They certainly place a good number of people in the federal government and agencies, but on the whole these are not the types who, as Mearsheimer put it, are constantly “on the make.” From what I have seen, there is a fair bit of institutional disdain for ‘politics’, which is certainly not true at places like the Kennedy School or Georgetown.