Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rekindled the realism versus liberalism debate in international relations. While liberals in general call the war an attack by “authoritarian Russia” on “democratic ...

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 ...

You can skip them and still know the theory, which is most important. 4. Politics Among Nations Written in 1948, this book by Hans Morgenthau represents the first major foray into defining ...

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Realism is the oldest and most venerable school of thought in the study of international politics. Thucydides, Hobbes, and Machiavelli provided its classic texts, and Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, ...

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“Building a grand theory of religion and international relations, I think, would necessarily oversimplify the diverse and nuanced ways in which religious ideas, practices, and modes of social ...

International Relations at W&M promotes the systematic study of political, economic, and historic relations among states and other actors in the international system. Students and faculty explore ...

In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was inaugurated to great international fanfare. Its signatories, who included the United States and most of Europe, disavowed the use of war in resolving international ...