Political realism

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…

first proposed. As an approach to international politics, realism can be seen as a response to the utopian thought that occupied the thoughts of students of international…

The Cautious Approach to U.S. Grand Strategies in Foreign Policy While there is a general consensus that in the post-Cold War era, the United States emerged as the world’s unipolar superpower, the role of superpower continues to be widely debated. Political realists err on the cautious side and see other state actors as possible threats not only to the balance of power, but also to the U.S. itself. Realist policy prepares for the worst. Neoconservatives believe that the U.S.’s democratic idea…

If states were able to cooperate, would the world be a better place? What would be the likely hood of all of the state’s cooperating? In this essay, I will present two arguments, which will spell out the neorealist point of view and the neoliberal point of view of international cooperation. The neorealist believe that it would be difficult to have international cooperation because they are worried about having equal distribution of power within states, and being able to trust other states. The…

beginning of the Realism movement in France, but artworks created in the years surrounding the revolution also convey the social issues brought about by the unstable political system. Artists departed from Romanticism, which had been popular since the late 18th century, and in turn abandoned the drama, emotion, and exotic subject matter that accompanied the artistic movement. In contrast, artists began to favor the portrayal of ‘real life’ situations, creating the birth of Realism. Realists…

attractive or even more attractive to invest in the periphery than to invest domestically. Even though profits flowed into the powerful state, investors typically didn’t account for the “availability of skilled workers, inadequate infrastructure and political instability” of the less developed regions they were investing in. So even though Lenin claimed that super profits existed in the periphery, “the actual experience of his investors [did] not support his view.” The socialist theory of…

Discovery can encompass the many experiences of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. These discoveries can change an individual’s perspective of human nature and the wider world. The theme of discovery is projected throughout the play, ‘The Tempest’ (1610), by William Shakespeare and the novel, ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ (1999), by Stephen Chbosky. The Tempest, written in the Jacobean era and reflecting aspects and…

Magical realism has many elements. One of the most common ones are the elements of the magical and the mundane interwoven seamlessly, the story is set in an otherwise ordinary world with familiar historical and/or cultural realities, and objects and setting within the story taking lives of their own in a way that is ordinary to the characters. These characteristics can be found in the following stories. Magical realism is the blend between reality and the extraordinary. Both texts, “A Very Old…

1. Canadian films have long been compared to American films and described in the sense of being “not American”. There have been many ways we historically separate Canadian films from American films, and it has mostly been through showing the differences between the two. Canadian films, historically, must have Canadian elements to be considered uniquely Canadian. This could mean Canadian actors, a Canadian director, Canadian funding, or, most prominently, a Canadian setting. Specifically, as Jim…

A common link with a majority of the texts from the turn of the century was the focus on realistic situations. Realism’s core was to inform; not to entertain or make light of the struggle between the social classes and race issues. Several authors from this literary movement (Hamlin Garland, Charles Chesnutt and Ambrose Bierce) wrote emotional narratives of individuals who struggled to assimilate in societies that ignored them. While Charles Chesnutt’s text was not as sad, however; the main…