Defensive realism is a theory of international relations that’s a useful lens to look through in order to analyze international politics today. The essence of defensive realism is that as a state ...

Critical realism emerged in the late twentieth century as a response to both positivist empiricism and post-modern constructivism. It posits a stratified social reality, where observable events are ...

Political theory and normative realism constitutes an approach to normative enquiry that insists on the centrality of real‐world political phenomena in the justification of political principles.

Americans are a people born of war, and only war can sustain the belief that they are a people set apart. War is necessary to sustain their belief that they are worthy of the sacrifices of past wars.

Share on Pinterest New research raises doubts about a decades-old theory that depressed people are more realistic. Westend61/Getty Images New research challenges Depressive Realism: a theory that ...