Idealism and Realism

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State

Idealism assumes countries can run the world cooperatively; realism assumes interests and power govern, whatever anyone says.

Show

The same treaty reads as progress to an idealist and as positioning to a realist.

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Both are lenses, presented as lenses — the course looks through each and endorses neither.

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