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“Realism as an approach to international relations helps to explain why states fight are threaten each other, but it is less effective in explaining much of the cooperative behaviour we see … ” Comment.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The statement sums up the neoliberal institutionalist critique of realism that gained ground in the 1980s and 1990s, as the Cold War ended peacefully and the WTO, an expanding European Union and a web of regimes seemed to make cooperation, not conflict, the normal state of affairs. It is broadly correct, though realism has more…

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  • Why realism explains conflict well
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