John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the US Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975, receiving his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-80 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-99 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and about international politics more generally. He has published two books: Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., Book Award, and Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988). He has a forthcoming book called The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, which will be published by Norton in 2001. He has also written many articles that have appeared in academic journals such as International Security and popular magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly. Furthermore, he has written a number of op-ed pieces for the New York Times dealing with topics including Bosnia, nuclear proliferation and American policy toward India. Mearsheimer has won a number of teaching awards. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching when he was a graduate student at Cornell in 1977, and he won the Quantrell Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Chicago in 1985. In addition, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 1993-94 academic year. In that capacity, he gave a series of talks at eight colleges and universities.