A Realist’s Guide to Russia’s War in Ukraine
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Classical Versus Structural Realism
John Kirschner argues that realists have a lineage in sinister, Germanic, imperial, and even Nazi heritage. He says they play this down to talk up their more respectable credentials. But there just isn't the real evidence for it except the overlap of some of the vocabulary. And if anything, realism as its best this century has tried to be, lie over the last century, a theory of peace,. A very dark piece and a piece in a very imperial world. The reason I've always been drawn to classical realism is it's ... sharper awareness about self-defeating behavior.
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