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MAIN REALIST THEORISTS AND THEIR ROLE BACKGROUND OF SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
MAIN REALIST THEORISTS AND THEIR ROLE BACKGROUND OF SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Author(s): Dorel Buşe
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: political realism; international relations; actors in international relations; international security; balance of power; diplomacy

Summary/Abstract: Realism is considered the main theory able to regenerate the new international relations paradigm. It especially developed in the Anglo-American world and represented the intellectual and academic effort to justify U.S. foreign policy in the new international conditions, marked by the setting of the Cold War. The principal theoreticians of realism are: E.H. Carr, R. Neibuhr, I. Herz, H.I. Morgenthau, G. Schwarzenberger, M. Wight, N. Spykman, G. Kennan, R. Aron, H. Bull, H. Kissinger, R.E. Osgood, R. Rosecrance, K.W. Thompson, K.N. Waltz, John J. Mearsheimer etc.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 119-126
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English