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Stateism offers a state-centric view of international relations by establishing the modern-nation state as the only determining factor of global politics. Survival, on the other hand, …show more content…
The ‘evidence’ on which it was based was not a systematic body of evidence and analysis, but rather sets of religious or philosophical speculations.
Theory of International Politics grounded realism by offering a structural account of the international system and the concept of systemic constraints. He acknowledged the inadequacy of Morgenthau’s analysis of human behaviour and revised a systemic approach to study shifts in state behaviour. Waltz characterized the international system using two concepts that have derived significance by realists in understanding state behaviour in the international