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Comment: The realist vision of ‘national interest’.

  • UPSC 2004
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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For realists, national interest is not one concept among many but the organising idea of international politics. Hans J. Morgenthau made interest defined in terms of power the second of the six principles added to Politics Among Nations in its second edition (1954), calling it the main signpost through the landscape of world politics. The…

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