Neorealism (international relations)

The neorealism (also called structural realism or structuro-realism) is current theoretical in the discipline of the International relations. It was founded by Kenneth Waltz in its work Theory off International Politics (1979). Authors like Robert Gilpin, Joseph Grieco, Robert Jervis, John Mearsheimer, Jack Snyder, Stephen Walt can also be classified in this current.

The neorealism developed mainly in the American Political science. It constitutes an attempt to reformulate the “traditional” realism (that of Edward Hallett Carr, Hans Morgenthau or Reinhold Niebuhr) in a rigorous approach and positivist (at that time American social sciences are marked by the “revolution behavioralist”).

neorealism (also called structurorealism) is current theoretical having evolved/moved in the years 1970 in reaction to the weaknesses of the traditional Réalisme. -->

Basic principles

Waltz proposes to adopt a “systemic” approach in the study of the relations between the States. There exists for Waltz an international structure which constrained States. Those being supposed to act in a rational way, the knowledge of the structure makes it possible to predict their behavior.

Criticisms

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