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The Role of Fear in International Relations
In the modern era, when liberal commercial elites began to achieve power and assert their right to govern, they rejected thumos outright. The drive for self-esteem finds expression in international politics in the struggle of the standing in status. We have two theories about appetite in international relations, liberalism and Marxism. They both center on satisfying human appetites, although they frame them and how they achieve in very different ways.