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    Political realism views international relations as inherently conflictual and based on power politics. Realists see nation states as primarily concerned with national interests defined in terms of power and security. They believe that international conflicts are ultimately resolved through war. Realism claims its perspective is realistic and devoid of moralizing. Critics argue realism is too narrow and fails to account for diverse voices and perspectives in international politics.

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    Political realism views international relations as inherently conflictual and based on power politics. Realists see nation states as primarily concerned with national interests defined in terms of power and security. They believe that international conflicts are ultimately resolved through war. Realism claims its perspective is realistic and devoid of moralizing. Critics argue realism is too narrow and fails to account for diverse voices and perspectives in international politics.

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    Political realism views international relations as inherently conflictual and based on power politics. Realists see nation states as primarily concerned with national interests defined in terms of power and security. They believe that international conflicts are ultimately resolved through war. Realism claims its perspective is realistic and devoid of moralizing. Critics argue realism is too narrow and fails to account for diverse voices and perspectives in international politics.

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    REALISM IN

    INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    Intro to International Relations
    What is Political Realism
    • Political realism is a perspective on international
    politics that is grounded in an emphasis upon power
    politics and the pursuit of national interests.
    • Realism claims to offer an account of world affairs
    that is ‘realistic’, in the sense that it is hard-headed
    and devoid of wishful thinking and deluded
    moralizing.
    Realism Views
    • Realists usually have a pessimistic view of human nature.
    Realists see international relations as basically conflictual, and
    they see international conflicts as ultimately resolved by war.
    • International politics is portrayed as ‘power politics’. The
    conduct of foreign policy is an instrumental activity based on
    the intelligent calculation of one’s power and one’s interests
    as against the power and interests of rivals and competitors.
    • Realists have a high regard for the values of national security,
    state survival, and international order and stability.
    Principles of Political Realism
    (Morgenthau)
    • Politics are governed by objective laws that have their roots in
    human nature.
    • The concept of ‘national interest defined in terms of power’ is the
    most important foreign policy goal.
    • While ‘interest defined as power’ remains unaffected by historical
    change, the exercise of power is permanent.
    • ‘Universal moral principles’ cannot be used to judge the action of
    states in their abstract formulation.
    • Moral aspirations are specific to a particular nation; there is no
    universally agreed set of moral principles.
    • Politics is an autonomous sphere, distinct from, and not subordinate
    to the standards of economics, law, morality, and so on.
    Critics to Realism
    • The International Society tradition is critical of realism on
    two counts. First, it regards realism as a one-dimensional IR
    theory that is too narrowly focused. Second, it claims that
    realism fails to capture the extent to which international
    politics is a dialogue of different IR voices and perspectives.
    • Emancipatory theory claims that power politics is obsolete
    because security is now a local problem within disorganized
    and sometimes failed states, and at the same time is a
    cosmopolitan problem of people everywhere regardless of
    their citizenship. It is no longer exclusively or even primarily
    a problem of national security and national defense.

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