This essay bridges the standard divide between traditional realist and critical IR theory by demonstrating their unity in the international thought of E. H. Carr. In recent times, numerous scholars ...

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 ...

The recent increase in interest in scientific realist foundations for international relations theory, spearheaded by Wendt in various works, most fully articulated in his Social Theory of ...

It Started With a Simple Question TRIP, a project of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations (ITPIR), started in 2004 as an e ort to explore and analyze the connections ...

The truth is that realist theories, like all theories of international relations, are probabilistic, which means that policy makers will sometimes act in ways that contradict realist expectations.

Realism is one of several schools of international relations (IR) theory and the most dominant. Realism stresses the importance of power and military security in international affairs.

Indeed, the two most influential paradigms in international relations theory - ‘liberalism’ and ‘realism’ - come to diametrically opposed conclusions about what ultimately drives the ...