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.

transnational organizations (such as multinational banks or corporations). These channels can be summarized as interstate, transgovernmental, and transnational relations. Interstate relations are the normal channels assumed by realists. Transgovernmental applies when we relax the realist assumption that

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