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 ...

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 ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

During Russia's terrible and ongoing total war on Ukrainian civilians, it has become clear that one strain of so-called "realist" thought in international relations theory is a source of confusion and ...

In his first book, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812-1822, Henry Kissinger wrote that, “Every statesman must attempt to reconcile what is considered just with ...

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 ...

Foreign policy realists, for all of their intellectual heft, have historically struggled to translate their academic theories into actual government policy. Not only have realists failed to prevent ...

The impact of industrialization on the development of realist theory and literature is the subject of The Fabric of American Realism, a new book by Babak Elahi, associate professor of English at ...

I defend a realist commitment to the truth of our most empirically successful current scientific theories— on the ground that it provides the best explanation of their success and the success of their ...