Realism and World Politics
The inner contradictions of Wilson’s liberal mindset had been duly exposed and, in being so, were revealed as a generic weakness ...
interventions would lead to extravagant wars and to an unsettled peace relying upon international organizations without the nece ...
individuals by autocratic regimes like Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. Now elements of American liberalism in the 1950s were ...
sceptical outlook upon the dynamics of world politics. The onset of atomic weapons and with it the spectre of thermonuclear dest ...
in the wider social realm of political contestation.^27 Furthermore, it is also note- worthy that Waltz himself was integrated i ...
This world was not something to be imbued with moral or immoral constructions let alone grand aspirations of purpose. It was si ...
analien and morally redundant entity. Waltz’s structural realism by contrast offered a far more neutral explanatory device and o ...
25 Alan Brinkley, ‘Legacies of World War II’, in Alan Brinkley, Liberalism and its Discontents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit ...
4 THE POLITICS OF THEORY Waltz, realism, and democracy Michael C. Williams Intellectual historians are fond of stressing the nee ...
controversies of the time concerning the cultural malaise of modern society, and the connections of both of these debates to the ...
consideration precisely the questions of political modernity that classical realists (and many others) insisted were crucial in ...
individual provided an inadequate foundation for individual identity and political community, and led towards an anomic democrat ...
policies, worries that were heightened by the dangers posed by the Cold War and the development of nuclear weapons. Their respon ...
one less well equipped for the contest must imitate the other or fall by the wayside.^12 As Waltz shows, this conclusion was dra ...
respond to the critics of liberal democracy, and to rebut the implicit (and sometimes explicit) conclusion that countries such a ...
in international anarchy, then this provides an explanation of why all states – including democratic ones – conform to its deman ...
democracy a better system for conducting foreign policy than totalitarianism, but American presidential democracy is the best fo ...
dilemmas of liberal modernity is not determinative. Contrary to the claims of those who saw foreign policy competition as requir ...
work (and in reading lists) would go a long way toward correcting numerous mis- interpretations of his thinking. More subtly, as ...
Finally, it helps show that in contrast to the pessimism that is often seen as a hallmark of realism, Waltz is in many ways an o ...
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