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What are the great debates between ‘classical’ and ‘modern’ realists? Is there any thin line of continuity between these two traditions?

  • UPSC 2012
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Classical realism, from Thucydides, Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes to E. H. Carr, Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans J. Morgenthau, is a philosophy of statecraft. Modern realism began with Kenneth N. Waltz's structural theory (1979) and branched into offensive, defensive and neoclassical variants that aim at social science. The two argue over foundations and method far…

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