Compare-Theory-Report All fields 003 | Page Format |
| Limitation | Does Not account for International Change -where sources of change in economy or |
| domestic. |
| Lack of ability to explain events in the international arena. |
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| Does not explain something which was going to happen anyway - needs example. |
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| Can not explain co-operation. |
| Basic problem is assumptions on which Theory is built. |
| Requires assumption of conflict to explain power. |
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| For Realist Foreign Policy Analysis is predicated on outside threat. Never based on |
| objectives that state might have. No sense of foreign policy except in sense of |
| stopping someone else. |
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| Balance of Power will not necessarily produce stability. Based on perceptions of |
| decision makers so is not automatic. Power can be in terms of relative gains or |
| absolute gains on one over another. |
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| Advice not consistent with reality |
| Reference | OWMT = International Relations: ONE WORLD, MANY THEORIES , By: Walt, Stephen |
| M., Foreign Policy, 00157228, Spring98, Issue 110 covers p29, 17p |
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| What-necesary-assumption: | Minimal requirements or conditions of Theory: 1)States are key units of action, 2) |
| States seek power either as end in itself or means to other ends, 3) States behave in |
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