Dealing with the World As It Is, Not as We Imagine It to Be
Why foreign policy realists are so often unrealistic about the world
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, it's become common to hear realist foreign policy thinkers and pundits denounce what they call the moralism of their intellectual sparring partners and congratulate themselves for their own superior commitment to the “logic of consequences.” But as the historian Mark Mazower vividly illustrates in his recent book T…
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