neorealism
- noun
- /ˌniːoʊˈrɪəlɪzəm/
- Formal
- The principles of neorealism suggest that the power distribution in the international system is crucial for understanding state behavior.
- neorealism and neoliberalism
- neorealism and institutionalism
Examples
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The idea that international politics can be thought of as a system with a precisely defined structure is neorealism's fundamental departure from traditional realism.
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For neorealism and neoliberalism, institutions reflect material power arrangements between member states; they do not have power in themselves.
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Neorealism clearly focuses on military power as the basis of security in the international system.
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There are important similarities between how neorealism and neoliberalism approach the question of institutions.
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A still more important one is neorealism's use of the concept of power as a defining characteristic of structure.
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Nevertheless, neorealism continues to be criticized for its omissions.
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However, neorealism, with its stress on the preeminence of security among state goals, offers some implicit insights.
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Therefore, the following discussion describes neorealism, then neoliberalism, before returning to the neorealist interpretation of institutions.
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Neorealism is the progenitor of neoliberalism; however, much of neorealism's discussion of institutions is a response to the neoliberal critique.
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The dominant North American approaches to international institutions—neorealism and neoliberal institutionalism—focus almost completely on material incentives and effects to explain institutional development.
Academic text (1998)
How Realist
Surface Forms
Morphology
neorealism = realism (transparent) = neo + realism
Formed by the productive prefix 'neo-' attached to the noun 'realism', indicating a newer or updated variant of the theory.
Etymology
Neorealism joins the part neo- meaning 'new' and realism meaning 'focus on the real'. So, in international affairs neorealism is a 'new' realism that explains why states act as they do by looking at power and the balance between countries.