POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Matthew Kapstein

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The authors highlight not only the logical flaws of realism, but also its inability to explain many of the outcomes that are of greatest interests to contemporary scholars, as the end of the cw and failures of states to balance against threatening powers: bruce bueno de mesquita and david lalman: a perspective that is attentive to domestic origins of foreign policy demands gives a richer and empirically more reliable representation of foreign affairs than a realist emphasis, snyder: that recent proponents of realism in ir have been wrong in looking at states as irreducibly actors whose power and interest are to be assessed calculations of national leaders. as domestic pictures tend to outweigh international ones in the, the works assessed in the article are unlikely to make a paradigm change in ir for 2 reasons, none of them produces a generalizable alternative theory, none of them provides a decisive modification of structural realism.

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