Theory of International Politics
by Kenneth N. Waltz · Kenneth N. Waltz
The founding text of structural realism, or neorealism. Waltz argues that the anarchic structure of the international system, not the character of individual states, drives balancing and conflict; readers will grasp systemic theory and why bipolarity proved stable.
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