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What is Realism?

What is foreign policy realism? What are some of its key principles? What is the relationship between realism and morality?
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From Realist Billiard Balls and Liberal Concentric Circles to Global IR's Venn Diagram? Rethinking International Relations via Turkey's Centennial

The Republic of Turkey continues to grapple with a foundational tension between isolationist impulses steeped in a nationalist, sovereigntist, i.e., realist outlook on the world, and what I call the ...
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Heroes, Villains and the Study of International Relations

In “What Putin, Xi and Khamenei Want” (op-ed, Dec. 28), Aaron MacLean makes the important point that the world is a dangerous place, populated with states that have divergent and sometimes violently ...
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The Middle East: Time for a New Realism – UK House of Lords Select Committee on International Relations Report (Excerpts)

250. Prospects for progress on the Middle East Peace Process are bleak. The Foreign Secretary judged it to have been “bogged down, static, [and] paralysed for some years now”.335 The Rt Hon Jack Straw ...