THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR AND THE RENAISSANCE OF IR REALISM
Journal: Forum Nauk Społecznych
Year: 2024

Realism is one of the leading theories in the study of international relations, originating from thinkers like Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Hobbes, and later articulated by 20th-century scholars like Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer, and Stephen Walt. It posits that international politics is characterized by anarchy and a struggle for power between sovereign nation-states pursuing their national interests driven by human nature and the structure of power. However, after 1991, man