3. What are the limits of framing international relations theory in terms of idealism vs. realism? Paul E Atfield

Realism as a political theory dominates the international relations area, historically slaying or engulfing competing theories. Despite the dominance of realism, since idealism was butchered on the battlefields during World War II 1, it has been assigned to the political scrap heap many times. Both the scientific approach in the 1960s and transnationalism in the 1970s merely helped to craft a more robust form of realism. Timothy Dunne2 describes how the presence of realism today is …

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