Political theory and normative realism constitutes an approach to normative enquiry that insists on the centrality of real‐world political phenomena in the justification of political principles.

My issue of Perspectives on Politics arrived just before I left town for the holidays, which gave me just enough time to look over John Schuessler and Sebastian Rosato’s article “A Realist Foreign ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

During Russia's terrible and ongoing total war on Ukrainian civilians, it has become clear that one strain of so-called "realist" thought in international relations theory is a source of confusion and ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has rekindled the realism versus liberalism debate in international relations. While liberals in general call the war an attack by “authoritarian Russia” on “democratic ...

Critical realism emerged in the late twentieth century as a response to both positivist empiricism and post-modern constructivism. It posits a stratified social reality, where observable events are ...

Americans are a people born of war, and only war can sustain the belief that they are a people set apart. War is necessary to sustain their belief that they are worthy of the sacrifices of past wars.

Security officials stand guard outside the Great Hall of the People before an event to honor some of those involved in China’s fight against COVID-19, in Beijing, Sept. 8, 2020 (AP photo by Mark ...