List of Realism articles
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FORT WORTH, TX - FEBRUARY 26: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Fort Worth Convention Center on February 26, 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas. Trump is campaigning in Texas, days ahead of the Super Tuesday primary. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Choose Your Own Adventure: The Future of the World
It’s not just the U.S. presidential platforms that will shape global politics in the years ahead -- it’s Americans’ theories of how the world works.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California on June 2, 2016. Protesters who oppose Donald Trump scuffled with his supporters on June 2 as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee held a rally in California, with fistfights erupting and one supporter hit with an egg. / AFP / JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump Is a Magical (Foreign Policy) Realist
The Republican presidential nominee is a fan of military interventions — as long as they don’t cost anything.
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US and Afghan soldiers listen to a mission briefing before a combined patrol southwards towards the village of Kandagal in the Pech valley, 16th June 2012 Why Is America So Bad at Promoting Democracy in Other Countries?
There’s no quick, cheap, or military-based way to bring peace to places like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Iraq. It’s time we changed our approach, and we can start at home.
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 07: President Barack Obama (2nd-L) listens to a question from an attendee at the University of Chicago Law School April 7, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama addressed his U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland as he hopes members of the Republican party will give Garland a hearing and a vote in Washington. (Photo by ) The Realist Playbook Is Perfect, Except for One Thing. Reality.
Michael Mandelbaum’s latest tome of hardball IR theory is stuck in Westphalia. Realist or not, President Obama isn't buying it.
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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 30: U.S. President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House on March 30, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by ) Obama Was Not a Realist President
If he had been, he might have avoided some of his biggest foreign-policy mistakes.
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DE PERE, WI - MARCH 30: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks out and waves to speak during a campaign event at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI on Wednesday March 30, 2016. (Photo by ) No, @realDonaldTrump Is Not a Realist
When it comes to geopolitics, the Donald’s worldview is fantasy and folly — not realism.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: U.S. President Barack Obama works behind his desk in the Oval Office January 27, 2014 at the White House in Washington, DC. President Obama will give his State of the Union address when speak to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol tomorrow night. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The Irony of Obamian History
The president loves Reinhold Niebuhr. That’s not a doctrine; that’s a problem.
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foreign policy-political-fiction-02_SW_V1 Farewell to Arms
Has American fiction lost its political edge?
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BALTIMORE - DECEMBER 28: A sign telling passengers that the National Threat Advisory is at Level "Orange," or high, is posted outside a security screening area at Baltimore Washington International Airport December 28, 2009 in Baltimore, Maryland. A passenger was detained after flying yesterday evening from BWI to New York La Guardia Airport with a 4-inch-long firework. Security measures have been heightened at airports after a Nigerian man attempted a terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day in Detroit. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Chill Out, America
TV news, think-tank pundits, and politicians all want you to see threats around every corner. Don't fall for it.
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471658496_4-30 Dump Realism. It’s Time For a Conservative Internationalism
It's time to devise a new middle ground foreign policy.
