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Realism and Complex Interdependence
One s assumptions about world politics profoundly affect what one sees and howone constructs theories to explain events. We believe that the assumptions of politi-cal realists, whose theories dominated the postwar period, are often an inadequatebasis for analyzing the politics of Interdependence . The realist assumptions aboutworld politics can be seen as defining an extreme set of conditions or ideal type. Onecould also imagine very different conditions. In this chapter, we shall constructanother ideal type, the opposite of Realism . We call it Complex the differences between Realism and Complex Interdependence , we shallargue that Complex Interdependence sometimes comes closer to reality than doesrealism.
The Characteristics of Complex Interdependence 23 Yet particularly among industrialized, pluralist countries, the perceived margin of safety has widened: fears of attack in general have declined, and fears of attacks by one anotherare virtually nonexistent.France has abandoned the tous azimuts (defense in all directions) strategy that President de Gaulle advocated (it was not
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