Today, the international community revolves around a state’s overall ability to to reach a hegemonic state, which refers to the overwhelming power a state has over other states, therefore establishing its dominance and influence other nations for fear of losing their sovereignty. This idea is known as Realism and according to Eric Shiraev and Vladislav Zubok, the authors of International Relations 2nd edition, “Realism is an approach to IR that focuses on states and their interests, balance of power, and the structure of international powers.” (Shiraev and Vladislav p. 41) Typically there are unipolar, bipolar, and or multipolar powers in the world which typically refer to how many power states are present at a given time in history; when there
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and the Soviet Union. After WWII, the Soviet Union gained nuclear proliferation assisting them in achieving a balance of power by establishing a competing military power . Not only is this an example of realism but also another realist ideology called realpolitik derived (delete) which describes a state’s assumption that the foundation of a state’s security is power and the threat to use it. For fear of total destruction from nuclear attack, both states did not enter a hegemonic war which is one state's overwhelming power over the other (delete because you already defined). Establishing hegemony is crucial in having a powerful economic system and using the strength of military so that states are able to preserve their dominance. America became the major power in the unipolar order world because of their democratic and capitalistic dominance over the Soviet Union. Today ,multipolar orders that obtain nuclear proliferation become blank but fear using them because it could have critical damage on the world's overall economy. Powers are also able to establish sanctions or embargos as a threat of economic power. For this reason, it is important to seek avenues for economic reform and nuclear disarmament that way lives can prosper and peace
and the Soviet Union. After WWII, the Soviet Union gained nuclear proliferation assisting them in achieving a balance of power by establishing a competing military power . Not only is this an example of realism but also another realist ideology called realpolitik derived (delete) which describes a state’s assumption that the foundation of a state’s security is power and the threat to use it. For fear of total destruction from nuclear attack, both states did not enter a hegemonic war which is one state's overwhelming power over the other (delete because you already defined). Establishing hegemony is crucial in having a powerful economic system and using the strength of military so that states are able to preserve their dominance. America became the major power in the unipolar order world because of their democratic and capitalistic dominance over the Soviet Union. Today ,multipolar orders that obtain nuclear proliferation become blank but fear using them because it could have critical damage on the world's overall economy. Powers are also able to establish sanctions or embargos as a threat of economic power. For this reason, it is important to seek avenues for economic reform and nuclear disarmament that way lives can prosper and peace