In 2007, over beers in Berlin, two foreign policy wonks figured out how they could sex up foreign policy realism, a school of thought that's been frequently derided by both the left and right as a ...

International Relations explores the relations between the state, the international system, and other factors in an ...

THERE ARE moments in international relations when we understand that the world is changing, but we do not yet know exactly where it is going—those moments when an era dies and a new one is yet to be ...

Realism is the oldest and most venerable school of thought in the study of international politics. Thucydides, Hobbes, and Machiavelli provided its classic texts, and Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, ...