Climate Change & Social Media: Redefining ‘Realism’

... view themselves as forces for global change, including the creation of a sovereign ‘caliphate’ state through war, a “legitimate instrument of statecraft”, according to realist John Mearsheimer. To paraphrase Mearsheimer, ‘realism’ is one of several theoretical paradigms which help interpret international relations and global politics, where states are the primary actors and “no higher authority sits above them” including the United Nations or any other international institution. Mearsheimer posited in 2002 that the realist paradigm ...