Political theory and normative realism constitutes an approach to normative enquiry that insists on the centrality of real‐world political phenomena in the justification of political principles.

In recent days, Ukraine won a stunning victory in the Kharkiv region. In the face of a well-organized Ukrainian offensive, routed Russian forces have been defeated in detail, not only fleeing the ...

John J. Mearsheimer argues an anarchic international system drives great powers into competition. The article applies his ...

Why do people hate realism so much? It’s a thoughtful question asked by Stephen Walt in Foreign Policy. Walt is a card-carrying foreign policy realist, his work on alliances and his theory of balance ...

Drawing on their new book, Hopeful Realism, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson lay out an Augustinian and evangelical theory of the natural law and show how it can be employed within ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I argue it is time to embrace a new approach to world politics that deals with what may be humanity’s gravest existential challenge: preserving the ...

Neoclassical realism represents an adaptive framework within international relations theory that integrates the structural insights of neorealism with key domestic variables to explain state behaviour ...

Nobody should be surprised that talks have started between Barisan Nasional’s (BN) disaffected components MCA and MIC with opposition coalition Perikatan Nasional (PN). Both BN components have been ...