This book discovers and examines important psychological assumptions and arguments that underlie the so-called realist approach to the study of international relations and foreign policy.¹ In these ...

Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 82, Special Issue: Marxism and International Relations: Still a Case of Mutual Neglect (2024), pp. 79-96 (18 pages) When and how do ...

Realism is the oldest and most venerable school of thought in the study of international politics. Thucydides, Hobbes, and Machiavelli provided its classic texts, and Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, ...

Murdoch University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For those of us fortunate enough to make a living studying international relations, these are interesting times. Some of our ...

Defensive realism is a theory of international relations that’s a useful lens to look through in order to analyze international politics today. The essence of defensive realism is that as a state ...

The author’s views are his own and do not represent those of the Air War College, the Air Force or the Department of Defense. For the record, I side with the critics when it comes to the advisability ...