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Theory of International Politics

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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7932 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global politics & International relations.

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The long peace, the end of the cold war, and the failure of realism

TL;DR: Realist theories at the international level have made an ex post facto attempt to account for the second and third major international developments of the last half century as mentioned in this paper, such as the long peace between the superpowers, the Soviet Union's renunciation of its empire and leading role as a superpower, and the post-cold war transformation of the international system.
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Political Realism and Human Interests

TL;DR: In this article, Herz's provocative piece prompts an attempt to examine realist scholarship in a way that reveals some deep antinomies: some internal tensions that make realist scholars, at least potentially, an evolving, open-ended "dialogue".
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What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate

TL;DR: The authors argue that the existence of imperial relations alters the dynamics of international politics: processes of divide and rule supplant the balance-of-power mechanism; the major axis of relations shift from interstate to those among imperial authorities, local intermediaries, and other peripheral actors; and preeminent powers face special problems of legitimating their bargains across heterogeneous audiences.
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Barriers to New Competition

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