Kenneth Waltz

nuclear weapons, other states are either working on procuring nuclear capabilities or seeking to purchase them or just flat hiding them from the international community. Nuclear proliferation is a growing concern and was debated by Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz at Columbia University on February 8, 2007. In this essay I will present a…

In August of 1945, the United States of America demonstrated its might and power when it exposed the world to its nuclear weapons through the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These bombings led to over 200,000 causalities in the area, as well as the end of World War II (Keylor). Since 1945, countries all around the world have been pushing for the creation of their own nuclear weapons. Acquiring nuclear weapons is a way that many countries believe they can protect themselves from other…

Kenneth Waltz presents an interesting argument in his article titled, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability”. Waltz reexamines the prominent debate of either dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapons or allowing it do so. He uses a neo-realist point of view to convince the audience that a nuclear Iran is essential in creating stability in the Middle East. Waltz firmly believes the danger of nuclear Iran to be “grossly exaggerated” and introduces the benefits…

In February 13, 2009 they have such a long debate which President Barack Obama “referred to the need to reduce the force structure of our strategic military systems by cutting the number of deployed nuclear weapons”. In this debate he spoke about why we should reduce our nuclear weapon and what it will be cause of reducing it. He also mentions that military civilian leaders have make plan to reduce nuclear weapons, the main question is what if United State reduce nuclear weapon and what will be…

is no international order. Since no world government exists and there is no international order both theories say that this makes the international political system live in a state of anarchy, which leads to conflicts and wars among states. Like Kenneth Waltz’s stated “international anarchy is the permissive cause of war.” (Weber 14, 2005) Both realism and neorealism see that a states primary goal is survival, which is a states main interest and the only way to secure survival is by power. So…

elaborates that Iran having such weapons would prevent future conflicts with other Middle East states like Iraq and Israel, but also would also prevent outside nations such as the United States from making threatening overtures (PBS Newshour). Unlike Waltz though, Mearsheimer admits there is a small chance that a conventional war involving Iran would carry the possibility of “inadvertent escalation” (PBS Newshour) and lead to the use of nuclear weaponry and did not fully support the thought of…

to human nature. He further stated that the first political realism makes this point clear, ‘politics’ like society is general, whereby its governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature Morgenthau ‘1956’. Structural realist, Kenneth Waltz book on Theory of International Politics, 1979, argues that it’s because of structure of the international system that causes the states to behave in a certain way and that human nature have little to do with it. He defines a structure as…

not. “Iran and the Bomb” takes an approach against Iran having nuclear power. Kahl argues that this could be a threat for other states, while on the other side, Waltz debates that this could create stability for Iran and the Middle East. I agree with Kahl’s article, “Iran and the Bomb” because I also believe that theorists, Kenneth Waltz, is respectfully wrong in a sense that the Islamic Republic would become more responsible as an international actor if it crossed the nuclear threshold…

Realism is a school of thought that emphasized foreign policy makers to focus on mutual interests in order to promote the coexistence of all societies (Dunne & Schmidt, 2014, p. 100). However realism has undergone many renaissances to come to promote coexistence of all societies. It became institutional post World War II as world powers looked to work together under reason d’etat which according to historian Frederich Meinecke is “the fundamental principle of international conflict, the state 's…

a nuclear program. In his essay “Peace, Stability and the Nuclear Weapons” Kenneth Waltz, allude that the main reason nation obtain nuclear weapon entails the issue of power. According to Waltz, weak states procure nuclear weapons as a way to protect themselves not only from their adversaries, but also from their allies who might not protect them in case of an attack (Waltz, 1995: 3-4). Hence, given this statement, Waltz describes the anxiety nations have of smaller countries such as North Korea…