Realism and Complex Interdependence - Pearson

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. When it does, traditional explanations of change in international regimesbecome questionable and the search for new explanatory models becomes political realists, international politics, like all other politics, is a struggle forpower but, unlike domestic politics, a struggle dominated by organized violence.

the most powerful states. Transnational actors either do not exist or are politically unimportant. Only the adept exercise of force or the threat of force permits states to survive, and only while statesmen succeed in adjusting their interests, as in a well-functioning balance of …

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