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- Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation.
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Mar 21, 2018 · 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.
- Tom Lundborg
- 2019
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- Introduction
- The ethics of neorealism
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- Acknowledgments
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.
Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation.
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 ...
Neorealism in international relations. Associated in particular with the American political scientist Kenneth Waltz, neorealism was an attempt to translate some of the key insights of classical realism into the language and methods of modern social science.
Structural realism, or neorealism, is a theory of international relations that says power is the most important factor in international relations. First outlined by Kenneth Waltz in his 1979 book Theory of International Politics , structural realism is subdivided into two factions: offensive realism and defensive realism.
Sep 20, 2013 · Introduction. The recent revival of realism and, in particular, the rediscovery of its ethical dimension typically involves an explicit contrast between neorealism and realism, with the former said to have ‘denuded’ the latter of its ‘complexity and subtlety’ ( Lebow, 2010, p. 26).
