POLI 381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Offensive Realism, Statism, Hard Power
30 Jan 2019
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Chapter 6 realism: realism: idea of polarity within the international system, realism only cares about hard power. Statism, survival, and self-help are three core elements of the realist tradition. One realism, or many: there is a lack of consensus as to whether we can meaningfully speak about realism as a single coherent theory, there are good reasons for delineating types of realism. Structural realism divides into two camps: those who argue that states are security maximizers (neorealism), and those who argue that states are power maximizers (offensive realism): neoclassical realists bring individual and unit variation back into the theory. First, the state is the pre- eminent actor in world politics.
