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 ...
Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 82, Special Issue: Marxism and International Relations: Still a Case of Mutual Neglect (2024), pp. 79-96 (18 pages) When and how do ...
Defensive realism is a theory of international relations that’s a useful lens to look through in order to analyze international politics today. The essence of defensive realism is that as a state ...
Introduction In October 2025, the International Institute for the Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana ...
One of the major debates in the study of international relations (IR) during the Cold War period was between Liberalism, Realism and Marxism as different theoretical approaches to world politics.
Neorealist theory is the simplest way to understand how countries interact. It’s like the basic starting point for studying how nations relate to each other. Almost every other theory in international ...
The author’s views are his own and do not represent those of the Air War College, the Air Force or the Department of Defense. For the record, I side with the critics when it comes to the advisability ...
Two replies to my post arguing that American debate about international relations theory needs to discover the via media between realism and idealism known as the English School. Further down, a ...