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Mar 21, 2018 · Introduction. What does it mean to think of a distinctly international ethics? This article addresses this core question of International Relations (IR) theory by challenging what is arguably the most common starting point of a wide range of previous attempts to answer it: the critique of neorealism.
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Apr 28, 2014 · Neorealism is an outgrowth of traditional balance-of-power (or “realist”) theories of international relations and was first articulated by Kenneth Waltz in 1975 and 1979. It is distinguished from the older theory primarily by its attempt to be more explicitly theoretical, in a style akin to economics—especially by its self-conscious ...
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Feb 20, 2024 · Abstract. Neoclassical Realism popularised by including context into a structuralised worldview. However, far from a novelty, Global South scholars have been promoting similar Realist course corrections, reducing parsimony, and increasing explanation. This article compares Ayoob’s Subaltern Realism, Escudé’s Peripheral Realism, and Yan’s ...
Sep 15, 2014 · The most significant difference is between classical realism, which places emphasis on human and domestic factors, and neorealism, which emphasizes how the structure of the international system determines state behavior. Neoclassical realism attempts something of a synthesis of the two positions.
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This article addresses the question of what it means to think of a distinctly international ethics by developing a radical reinterpretation of Waltzian neorealism from a Derridean deconstructive perspective. The core argument of the article is that Derridean deconstruction effectively explains why there is an ethics of neorealism in the first place...
Derrida, international ethics, neorealism, survival, time, Waltz
What does it mean to think of a distinctly international ethics? This article addresses this core question of International Relations (IR) theory by challenging what is arguably the most common starting point of a wide range of previous attempts to answer it: the cri-tique of neorealism. As is well known, neorealism is often depicted as a theory th...
Derrida’s notion of the violent opening of ethics fits remarkably well with the two core assumptions of Waltz’s theory of international politics: the anarchic structure of the inter-national political system and states’ desire to survive within this system. On this basis, it can be argued that there is, indeed, an ethics of neorealism. It is found ...
The ethics of neorealism, as argued in this article, stems from the mutual interaction of the two core themes of Waltz’s theory: the structure of anarchy and states’ desire to sur-vive. Together, they affirm Derrida’s notion of the violent opening of ethics: the opening to a future that makes new life possible while exposing everything that lives t...
I would like to thank Stefan Borg and Dan Bulley for their comments on earlier drafts of this arti-cle, and for encouraging me to pursue these ideas. I also want to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
1. Neorealism is a school of international relations theories that privileges structural factors and relegates domestic and individual-level factors to lesser roles in causal priority. The most impor-tant examples are Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979);
At the heart of neorealism lies a strong belief that general, legal-like knowledge about international politics is possible. Within IR, Waltz was the first scholar to build his theoretical argument on the grounds of clearly demarked assumptions about actors and structures in in-ternational politics.
