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What is Realism?

What is foreign policy realism? What are some of its key principles? What is the relationship between realism and morality?
The Republic of Turkey continues to grapple with a foundational tension between isolationist impulses steeped in a nationalist, sovereigntist, i.e., realist outlook on the world, and what I call the ...
Realism has maintained its central role in International Relations theory throughout the post-1945 era, but the relative clarity of the realism of Carr and Morgenthau has been lost by the addition of ...
In “What Putin, Xi and Khamenei Want” (op-ed, Dec. 28), Aaron MacLean makes the important point that the world is a dangerous place, populated with states that have divergent and sometimes violently ...
250. Prospects for progress on the Middle East Peace Process are bleak. The Foreign Secretary judged it to have been “bogged down, static, [and] paralysed for some years now”.335 The Rt Hon Jack Straw ...