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Clearly explain Realist Theory to the study of International Politics.

  • UPSC 2003, 1991
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Realism, also called power politics or Realpolitik, studies international politics as it is rather than as it ought to be. Systematised by E. H. Carr (The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1939) and Hans J. Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations, 1948) against interwar idealism, it became the discipline's dominant theory because it offers the most powerful account of…

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