AHOGY JÖN. A visszafogott realizmus felé
AS IT COMES – TOWARDS A MODERATE REALISM

Summary/Abstract: The authors’ study examines a potential application of the realist approach – a formidable factor in foreign policy as well as in homeland security – that could be used to explain a wider range of social relations. After an introduction of the modernist discourse, the polemic counterpart of the realist interpretational frame, through a presentation of its key junctures – economic development, political institutions, and cultural value shifts – the authors outline the major cornerstones of the realist approach: anthropological pessimism, theories concerning the drive for power, and the applicability of these to social relations. The presentation of two popular realist books published in 2011, Why Nations Fail, and The Dictator’s Handbook serves, among other things, as an illustration of the above-mentioned junctures. Finally, the authors attempt to put forward the basis for a possible moderate realist approach and argue its applicability.

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