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The “Poster Child for offensive realism”: America as a global hegemon

Security Studies, 2002
(2002). The “Poster Child for offensive realism”: America as a global hegemon. Security Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 120-164.
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Nationalism and the Nation-State in Structural Realism: John Mearsheimer’s Offensive Realism

2017
This chapter explores Mearsheimer’s variant of neorealism. Mearsheimer operates a clear and narrow definition of power which is expected to perform the role of currency in international relations. This is also evident in his account of the emergence of the nation-state which is predominantly focused on the impact of military power.
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The Tragedy of Offensive Realism: Testing Aggressive Power Politics Models

International Interactions, 2009
Offensive realism is a theory of opportunistic state power maximization. States are said to always seek power so that they may dominate the international system and survive under conditions of anarchy. The theory of offensive realism is both descriptive in the sense that it suggests how states have acted in the past and prescriptive in that it suggests
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Annexation of Crimea from the Perspective of Offensive Realism

2020
Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, bölgesel bir güç olan Rusya Federasyonu’nun, komşusu olan Ukrayna’ya karşı hangi saiklerle askeri güç kullandığı ve Kırım’ı ilhak ettiğidir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda yapılan literatür çalışması sonucunda, Rusya’nın bu yaklaşımı genel olarak iki farklı teorik perspektiften yorumlanmıştır.
ÇAKIR, Oğuzhan, EMİNOĞLU, Ayça
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Back to the Drawing Board: A Critique of Offensive Realism

International Relations, 2013
Offensive realism argues that states committed to survive are nevertheless condemned to participate in a relentless struggle for power, and it holds the structure of the international system as the cause of this tragic outcome. This article subjects the logic behind this tragic worldview and the explanatory power of offensive realism to a careful and ...
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Theoretical Framework: Towards Neo-Offensive Realism

This chapter develops a ‘neo-offensive realism theory’ both for this book and future analysis. It aims to achieve three theoretical aims. First, it reviews the major realist theories, with a focus on John Mearsheimer’s offensive realism theory. Second, it develops a neo-offensive realist framework by proposing several conceptual add-ons that refine—but
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Beyond victory: Offensive realism and the expansion of war aims

Security Studies, 1997
(1997). Beyond victory: Offensive realism and the expansion of war aims. Security Studies: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 1-49.
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Offensive realism, thucydides traps, and the tragedy of unforced errors: classical realism and US–China relations

China International Strategy Review, 2019
The emergence of China as a great power, and its implications for International Relations, especially with regard its relations with the United States and the prospects for conflict between the two powers, is one of the most pressing problems in world politics.
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The 2008 Russian–Georgian war via the lens of Offensive Realism

European Security, 2012
Abstract The Russian intervention in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia in August 2008, Moscow's first-ever use of military force against a sovereign state in the post-cold war period, deserves a theoretical explanation. By following the tenets of Offensive Realism, this article will argue that the US–Russian competition in the South ...
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Thoughts on Mearsheimer's "Offensive Realism"

International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2022
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