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International Relations Theory : Realism-Why Institutions Fail
- Realism: it's high-minded - and it works
-- The Realist approach to foreign policy has always met with a certain suspicion in the United States; it is variously viewed as too cynical, too European, and too dismissive of America's unique mission in the world. Nevertheless, the importance of realism to advancing and defending American interests and values may never have been greater...
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- Structural Realism After the Cold War
-- [PDF] (Kenneth Waltz) Some students of international politics believe that realism is obsolete. They argue that, although realism's concepts of anarchy, self-help, and power balancing may have been appropriate to a bygone era, they have been displaced and eclipsed by better ideas...
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- The Rebirth of Realism and the Lessons of History: The British Example
-- Realists look to history and the structural nature of the world as their blueprint for conducting foreign policy. In the nature of the world they found themselves in, post-Waterloo Great Britain eerily mirrors the conditions facing the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century. As these circumstances reflect the present American situation, a closer understanding of the methods of the time ought to lead to a template for present American action...
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- The Utility of Force in World of Scarcity
-- Relations between states have always been conducted in an atmosphere darkened by the possibility of violence. In the absence of a world government, issues could rarely be settled solely by appeals to reason and justice. Coercion, not persuasion, was thus the means of resolving disputes, and because the resort to force could never be completely precluded, organized violence became the ultimate arbiter in world politics.
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