Realism and World Politics
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9 STRUCTURAL REALISM, CLASSICAL REALISM AND HUMAN NATURE Chris Brown Reading Waltz in context It is, I think, generally acknowle ...
surface categories of a text in the stronger language of a more fundamental interpretive code.^4 A symptomatic reading, in other ...
Bruckner, Mahler et al., and even those who do not frequent the concert hall will have picked up much of the musical language of ...
and accused Kaplan of failing to grasp this distinction in his famous text System and Process in International Politics.^8 To my ...
academic argumentation between those who in their own work stress continuity and those who stress rupture. In practice, we all s ...
the very lack of a response does feed the predispositions of those who want to see him as instituting a rupture with the past. B ...
[we] have done nothing remarkable, nor contrary to ordinary human behaviour, if we not only accepted an empire when it was offer ...
takes it for granted that politics is about the pursuit of interests; thus, the unstated assumption is that the Duke Valentino s ...
unknowable, but second, and more important, it is because, contrathe position outlined above, human nature is actually a variabl ...
Waltz is not an Augustinian realist, even if he shares some of the pessimism char- acteristic of that genre. Neither does he fol ...
the rational choice realists and the constructivists. Waltz’s thought seems to oscillate between the Hobbesian and Augustinian p ...
maximising.^38 The results here are rather sobering; for example, there is good evidence that mentally healthy people tend to ex ...
Notes 1 Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979). I am grateful to Kirsten Ainley, ...
18 Ibid., p. 298. Crawley is crisper and more poetic: ‘Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of th ...
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman comments ‘the bottom line is that all the biases ...
10 HUMAN NATURE AND WORLD POLITICS Rethinking ‘man’^1 Neta C. Crawford The ideas about human nature that have dominated theories ...
‘Man’ in Morgenthau and Waltz Realists ground their theories of international politics in explicit assumptions about human natur ...
Waltz’s discussion of human nature is rather nuanced and his use of the traditional image of human nature is subtle. In Man, the ...
condition of anarchy.’^18 In Theory of International Politics, Waltz says ‘Nationally as internationally, contact generates conf ...
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