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  • Explaining why state X made a certain move last tuesday: the promise and limitations of relist foreign policy analysis
    Wivel, Anders
    What are the main challenges facing realist foreign policy analysis today? Which strategies might realists follow in order to answer these challenges? This article argues that contemporary realism ... faces two fundamental challengeswhen attempting to explain foreign policy. The first challenge is tocombine structural factors with other variables without ending up with a collection of ad hoc arguments. The second, and related, challenge is to combine the realist emphasis on the continued importance of materialist factors such as power with the observation that these factors are interpreted and perceived - not objectively measured - by human beings making foreign policy. The article explores the potential of contemporary realism in order toshed light on the nature of the challenges and discuss how they might be answered.
    Source: Journal of international relations and development. - ISSN 1408-6980 (Vol. 8, no. 4, 2005, str. 355-380)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2005
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 25225309
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