Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism
School of War
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The Limits of Classical Realism in Foreign Policy
"It doesn't seem to me that realism as realism is going to provide the moral counsel and that's a big problem we got to go find it somewhere else," says Jonathan Krishner. "You can be a realist or a classical realist and still have space for your foreign policy to be infused with a value system now that will be contested now", he adds. 'I choose this difference between understanding that the world is a dark dangerous amoral place in which actors can behave barbarically and without limit' said Krishner.
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