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What is the realist prescription to the States to ensure their survival in an anarchical world?

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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For realists, anarchy means the absence of any authority above sovereign states, not chaos. Since no one is obliged to rescue a state in trouble, survival becomes the first national interest and the precondition of every other goal. From this premise realism derives a consistent prescription, though classical, defensive and offensive realists disagree on how…

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