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Structural Realism after the Cold War
St r uctur al Reali sm aft ert he Cold W arKenneth N. WaltzSome students of in-ternational politics believe that Realism is They argue that, althoughrealism s concepts of anarchy, self-help, and power balancing may have beenappropriate to a bygone era, they have been displaced by changed conditionsand eclipsed by better ideas. New times call for new thinking. Changingconditions require revised theories or entirely different rue, if the conditions that a theory contemplated have changed, the theoryno longer applies. But what sorts of changes would alter the internationalpolitical system so profoundly that old ways of thinking would no longer berelevant? Changes of the system would do it; changes in the system would changes take place all the time, some important, some not.
realist Theory,” International Security, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Summer 1994), pp. 108– 148; and John A. Vasquez, “ The Realist Paradigm and Degenerative vs. Progressive Research Programs: An Ap-praisal of Neotraditional Research on Waltz’s Balancing Proposition,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December 1997), pp. 899– 912.
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