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Write a note on Intellectual precursors of Realism.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Realism became an academic theory only with E. H. Carr (1939) and Hans J. Morgenthau (1948), but realists present themselves as heirs to a long tradition of statecraft in Greek, Indian, Chinese and early-modern European thought. Each precursor supplied a building block of the modern theory: anarchy, power, interest, fear or the separation of politics…

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