Steven

The Limits

Forde, in The Journal of Politics (May 1992), Dept. of Political Of Realism Science, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, La. 70803.

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the last half-century, through the work of Hans J. Morgenthau, George F. Kennan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and others, realism-i.e. skepticism about the applicability of ethical standards to international politics-has be-come a leading school of thought on interna- tional relations. Today, the realist mantle is claimed both "neoisolationist" liber...