Theories Of World Politics Part 1:- Realism
Theories Of world Politics -1: Realism Realists have a different view of world Politics and like liberals, claim a long tradition. However, it is highly contested whether realists can actually claim a lineage all the way back to ancient Greece or whether realism is an invented intellectual tradition for cold war American foreign policy needs. Either way, there are many variants of something called ‘realism’. But in general, for realists , the main actors on the world stage are states, which are legally sovereign actors. Sovereignty means that there is no actor above the state that can compel it to act in specific ways. According to this view, other actors such as multinational corporations or international organizations have to work within the framework of inter - state relations. As for what propels states to act as they do, realists see human nature as centrally important, and they view human nature as rather selfish. As a result, world politics represents a struggle for ...