Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine
The Good Fight
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Is the United States a Realist?
Realism comes from a need of the social sciences to find something that they can measure and quantify. And so you wind up neglecting the whole human aspect of international relations, he says. The realist position suggests that the only just world is a world in which multiple powers are balanced against each other,. otherwise you have egeminy and domination.
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