The Rule of Force in World Affairs
The doctrine of Realism
Before I write about the second book Regions and Powers by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver I want to talk about realism for pedagogical reasons. I have written about realism before but only tangentially and without a systematic treatment of the theory.
The dominant formulation of realism (called neorealism or structural realism) was give…
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