War and Realism and Constructivism

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We have to understand as to why war is such a reoccurring event in the history of nation-states and also the nature of international affairs and the determining factors which cause action, reaction, cooperation, hostility and peace between states in the international system. War has always been a conflict between countries through the use of weapons. When nations decide to go on war against each other, millions of money are spent and it, and not only money and materials are wasted but it also cost hundreds to even millions of lives. Then, most of the time, not only military die but innocent people are also the ones losing their lives. The kill of people for whatever reasons such as power or race...etc, and then because nations do not think in the say way and do not have the same view of the world is not right. This is why peace is the contrast of war. Peace is mostly described as a quality that operates harmoniously and keeps a society or a relationship safe. This means that hostility does not exist, because safety of the nation-states,and their international relationship on social and economic matters are important, and the equality and good justice is trusted. Bill Newman in his article “A brief introduction to theories on international relations and foreign policy” states that classical realism is a state theory that argues that all states seek power, and that states seek to increase their power; they want to decrease the power of their enemies; and everything they do is in the name of amassing power. States see other powerful states as rivals because power, when it is not in your hands, is threatening.(Newman Poli 468) This means that states want the power to dominate other states because they think that having... ... middle of paper ... ...ermore, norms did not stop the US to got to Afghanistan and Iraq and constructivism does not fully explain peace because most of its explanations are on humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian aid does not bring peace. Why did not the United States or Europe intervene in Rwanda genocide? We all know that he is because Americans did not have interests, a small African country with no mineral and most of the UN peacekeeping were remove from Rwanda. Constructivism is just critical where others theories failed to give the proper explanation and it does not make predictions, and even according to Wendt himself who identifies constructivism as a tool for analysis,rather than a tool of predictions. Wendt (1992). Finally, construstivits forget that individual experiences and attitudes vary accordingly to actors and that on the “what?” but not on the “Why?” and the “How?”.

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