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Lucas G Freire - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Inanna Hamatiataya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Neorealism reconsidered human nature or state behavior
    International Studies Review, 2012
    Co-Authors: Inanna Hamatiataya
    Abstract:

    History and Neorealism. Edited By Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance, Zara Steiner . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 394 pp., $35.00 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-13224-4). Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations. The Resurrection of the Realist Man. By Robert Schuett . Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 237 pp., $89.00 hardcover (ISBN-13: 978-0-230-62354-5). Neorealism remains the most widely criticized theoretical approach in international relations (IR) today. The literature that attempts to show the conceptual limits, theoretical flaws, and moral obtuseness of Neorealist or post-classical realist theorizing continues to grow, attesting to the ongoing institutional dominance of Neorealist thought just as much as to the sustained dissatisfaction with its intellectual legacy. The two books reviewed here contribute to the three-decade-old critique of Neorealism, but from two different perspectives. While the volume edited by Richard Rosecrance, Zara Steiner and the late Ernest May, History and Neorealism , focuses on Neorealism's, and more generally realism's inability to explain how states actually behave on the international scene, Robert Schuett, in Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations. The Resurrection of the Realist Man , resurrects realism's philosophical frame of analysis and addresses Neorealism's failure to sustain a coherent reflection on human nature and its role in international behavior. History and Neorealism aims to show “through the use of case histories addressing different countries and covering different periods, that, even in those episodes where power is centrally involved, ‘realism’ characteristically fails to explain what is happening” (p. 6). More specifically, the authors of the volume successfully demonstrate, contra the (Neo)realist balance-of-power/survival-and-hegemony explanatory scheme, that states have historically often made the choice to either “overuse” or “underuse” their power, and that these choices depend on their “different understandings of what power permits or of the elements of which it is composed” (Rosecrance, p. 12). Moreover, they show that states' behavior can only be understood if both non-systemic and systemic factors are taken into account, such as “ideological, economic, and social constraints,”“ideological leadership,”“geography,” as well as “transnational and institutional, economic, and social factors which affect the international environment in which states operate” (pp. 6–7). The ways wherein these …

John S Duffield - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • political culture and state behavior why germany confounds Neorealism
    International Organization, 1999
    Co-Authors: John S Duffield
    Abstract:

    During the past decade, a growing number of scholars have turned to cultural approaches to account for the foreign and security policies of states. Surprisingly, however, these scholars have devoted little attention to the concept that boasts the most venerable tradition in the field of political science, that of political culture, as a possible source of state behavior. This neglect is unjustified. Like other cultural variables, political culture promises to explain phenomena that are enigmatic from the perspective of leading noncultural theories, such as Neorealism. Yet it applies to a broader range of cases than do the many alternative cultural concepts, such as strategic culture and organizational culture, that have been employed. I begin by describing an important puzzle in the international relations literature that suggests the need to consider culture as a variable: the failure of Neorealism to predict German security policy after unification. I then assess the various cultural approaches used in recent years to explain state behavior. After noting the similarities in these approaches, I discuss the important differences that mark them and identify the reasons for the greater utility of political culture. Finally, I illustrate the explanatory power of the political culture approach by applying it to the case of German security policy since 1990.

Nicolas Guilhot - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • how realism waltzed off liberalism and decisionmaking in kenneth waltz s Neorealism
    International Security, 2015
    Co-Authors: Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot
    Abstract:

    Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to Neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of attention to decisionmaking and statesmanship, and concomitantly asserted a nostalgic, anti-liberal political ideology. Neorealism, by contrast, dismissed the issue of foreign policymaking and decisionmaking. This shift reflected Waltz's desire to reconcile his acceptance of classical realism's tenets with his political commitment to liberalism. To do so, Waltz incorporated cybernetics and systems theory into Theory of International Politics, which allowed him to develop a theory of international relations no longer burdened with the problem of decisionmaking.

Yavuz Akdag - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Likelihood of Cyberwar between the United States and China: A Neorealism and Power Transition Theory Perspective
    Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2019
    Co-Authors: Yavuz Akdag
    Abstract:

    The studies addressing cyberwar and depicting electronic doomsday scenarios, such as cyber version of 9/11, are immensely policy-driven. They lack a theoretical rigor in their explanations, causing a theory-policy gap in the study of cyberwar. This gap is more acute in the discussion on cyberwar scenarios between China and the United States (U.S). Additionally, while some used neorealist frameworks to understand the nature of U.S-China relations in cyberspace, they did so mostly with no systematic analysis of the likelihood of cyberwar between the two. I intend to bridge this theory-policy gap by examining the prospect of cyberwar between the U.S. and China using Neorealism and Power Transition Theory (PTT). I argue that PTT offers a more useful framework. Applying PTT indicates that while cyberwar currently seems unlikely, China will become cyberwar-prone to switch the status quo in cyberspace to its favor, especially if it achieves offensive cyberwar capability parity with the U.S. while simultaneously remaining dissatisfied with the cyber order. I utilized secondary empirical sources in the relevant literature in conducting this study.