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 ...

The Russian author of "Crime and Punishment" thought plain-old realism was not good enough in art. Realism, he believed, must ...

New research challenges Depressive Realism: a theory that suggests depressed people are less prone to optimistic bias. Research from 1979 suggests that people with depression are most realistic ...