PSC 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cengage Learning, Axis Powers
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Realism holds three key features as an international relations perspective. These three are that, humans are flawed in their nature, humans identify with social groups which may cause in group egotism, and the inevitability of social conflict (shimko 34). These concepts can be applied on the international level, since realism as a grand theory expects the inevitability of war. The driving force for the nations behavior, in the view of a realist, is the nation"s desire for power. Realism is a realistic approach to understanding modern international politics. As the dominant grand theory of united states has been realism, several examples can be used from the. For example, realism can explain the behavior of the us during the cold war. When only the us and cuba were involved, us aided attempted invasion of cuba by anti-castro exiles (stoil, liberalism and realism).
