The Political Theory Of Realism In International Society

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Thesis statement: Due to the anarchic system within international society, state actors exhibit aggressive behavioural tendencies through regimes, norms, rules and principles that make it impossible to achieve world peace. Plan of investigation: It is the purpose of this essay to use Realism, Liberalism and the English School theorise and correlate them with their appropriate historical era that explores and demonstrates political examples of regimes, norms, rules and principles that exhibit how achieving world peace as impossibility in international society.

Body Paragraph 1 Topic sentence: Perhaps the most conflicted periods of human history, the 20th century has been shaped by two world wars and a cold war. The political theory of realism …show more content…

Supporting evidence 1: Discuss Realpolitik and the formation of the German First Reich and its unbalancing of European international society. Discuss how the European international society by 1914 behaved with a realist mentality; expand power, maintain power, and demonstrate power
Source: Gochman, Charles S., and Russell J. Leng. "Realpolitik and the Road to War: An Analysis of Attributes and Behavior." International Studies Quarterly 27, no. 1 (1983): 97-120.
Relevance of evidence to topic sentence & thesis: The first body of evidence will introduce realism as the driving foreign policy attitude of the early 1900’s. Furthermore it will identify how realist thought; pursue power and security at each others expense and the excessive use of Statism as the primary force to international conflict by 1914 and the ensuing

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