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Theory of International Politics
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Anarchy, hierarchy, and the variety of international relations
TL;DR: In this article, the state's choice between alternatives is explained in a theory of relational contracting as a function of the expected costs of opportunism, which decline with relational hierarchy, and governance costs, which rise with relational hierarchies.
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Realism and the End of the Cold War
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that the events of the late 1980s and early 1990s utterly confound realism's expectations, and call into question its relevance for understanding the post-Cold War world' Others-realist and non-realists alike-disagree, maintaining that the rapid decline and comparatively peaceful collapse of the Soviet state, and with it the entire postwar international order, discredit the realist approach.
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The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment
TL;DR: The conventional wisdom among U.S. grand strategists is that the United States should not worry about other states engaging in counter-hegemonic balancing against it as discussed by the authors, which is not the case.
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Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Studies of International Politics
TL;DR: This paper provided an account of analytic steps used in working with typologies, and an accessible vocabulary to describe them, illustrated with concrete examples drawn from prominent versions of offensive structural, defensive structural, and neoclassical realism.
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Security Seeking under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Revisited
TL;DR: The paper as mentioned in this paper was presented at the 1999 annual meetings of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association and was reviewed by Dale Copeland, Bernard Finel, Benjamin Frankel, Benjamin Miller, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, and anonymous reviewers for International Security.
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Introduction to cybernetics
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