Realism in International Relations
What is Realism? “A paradigm based on the premise that world politics is essentially and unchangeably a struggle among self-interested states for power and position under anarchy, with each competing state pursuing its own national interests” - Kegley & WittKopf, p31 Realism is a one of the most historical and dominant theory in international relations. And Realism has been the most influential theory to understand practical international scenarios in the world. Anyway throughout the history realism has been developed by different and famous political philosophers. Kautilya, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs can be named as few of the famous realists. But the founder of this school of thought was Thucydides. To understand realism there should be some idea about what these philosophers said about this school of thought. Realist ground themselves in long and old tradition. The ancient Indian political thinker kautilya in his book “Arthashasthraya” ment
