Structural Realism - International Relations (1/7)

Super helpful. Great to grasp the foundation to understand realism.

He's boring

Its not the structure rather innate human nature to pursue a never ending quest for wealth, resources and power. It wants to ensure its dominance perpetually.

I did not know that Bryan Cranston is such a great Academician.

Chaos causes order…. So as they say.
So fires, earthquake’s, food is poisoned,
Try to start a civil war in the us by our own people.
Just my opinion of course since the vac’s.

Too many people in the world. We have 7.5 BILLION in the world. If you do the math correctly…… the whole world could fit in the state of Texas and still have plenty of room.

And eight years later……. We find out our own
People above us are KILLING us by poison in water, food, medicine, tiny aluminum particles in the air. And now saying people in the us will starve for lack of food.
They have put things in the oceans to kill our fish……… wow here we are in 2023.

I don`t see my country, Spain, reflected in Mearsheimer's theories. We do not see France or Portugal as potential threats. The EU, with all its flaws, has succeeded in changing the view we European have of our neighbours. What he says may apply to some hegemonic countries, China, the US, but not to all nations.

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I like how he stated his theory of how the international system works without bad mouthing the human nature basis of political realism.

According to the political power , what is justice for one is unjustice for the other, the unipolarity is now unfashionable. Nowadays everyone is expecting the new world, the multipolar one. Gogo multipolar would.

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There is no authority above (I mean - that's a clear statement). Besides from our consciousness

clear, simple and fluent he explained it in effective way

Nice explanation but soft power ideology.

I'll probably never find a theory of IR that's more internally coherent than Mearsheimer's structural realism.

Can someone please give me a dollar for every time I hear “anarchic system” throughout my IR major? Ta

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This is the best theory to understand International politics when you are living outside world's superpowers.

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He talks about China's intentions to become a Hegemony 8 years ago. And his prediction was spot on. Why don't people listen to this guy!!!!!!

This idea of searching to be more powerful is probably the biased view of the US because they are in the special situation of having so few neighbors. In biology, there have been dinosaurs which where quite powerful. But there also are some small fish which always move in flocks (thousands of them forming the shape of a big fish). There is absolutely no reason to privilege power over alliances. For a country in Europe, for example, which has many neighbours, it would be economically more viable to form alliances which other neighboring countries rather to strive to become the most powerful country on the continent. Maybe because of these inherent biases (depending where people come from, the US or Europe), the science of international relations between states has so equally biased proponents.

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Such a parochial breakdown of the international system. In presupposing states are the centrality of international relations, abstracting human consciousness from the equation - and assume that material power is the only facet of the dynamic architecture making up the international arena - then hegemonic stability theory is sensible. Concretely, human involvement in the construction of reality is not a fixed feature, so social infrastructure is regulatory but a fiction of the mind. The identity persons assign and accompanying norms are the underlying drive of behavior.

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If this theory is correct then why doesn't China and India start going into a arms race. Yes India has a big military but not compared to the PLA. India has two very competitive countries close by and no one to really fall back on unlike Taiwan who is counting on the US and to a certain degree Japan to defend them.

being powerful doesnt necessarily include domination or agression
US does not have peer competition in the Americas so leave Asia alone

This POS talks to you as if you are a moron...Endlessly repeats the same thing...usa is a CANCER on this planet.

Balance of power to counter china from becoming a hegemony ,he explained Soo well

What about the ants soceity ?😂😂

Is there a difference between Realism and Neo-Realism?

Wow… no one could have explained the international situation so well and made it understandable like a cake walk based on real theory… I do support what you explained sir. We are evidently witnessing the same thing as you predicted. Thank you.

I observe, and i think every person in history up to the future subconsciously knows, "where" realists are really coming from (And i observe this is what the likes of mearsheimer don't really realize). If you and they really think deeply about it, they (realists) are actually really coming from the LACK OF COURAGE,... to be IDEALISTS....
(and they, realists, justify it - realism - with all kinds of "acrobatic" reasoning).

Most of them voice out their realpolitik viewpoints in the safety of their privileged circumstances - like Nicollo Machiavelli himself. (That's why he, mearsheimer, always say, not verbatim: "I'm very happy I'm living in (the most powerful) liberal democratic country - which ironically is a product of idealism, ...but when it comes to international relations...- he's a realist)

His and his et al's IR Old World 19th century Machiavellian realpolitik viewpoint...
...actually HAS to die,...
... WE, THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE ALL KNOW IT IN OUR HEARTS IT HAS TO DIE, "YESTERDAY", hundreds, even thousands of years ago...
... And I think deep inside his (mearsheimer et al's) heart he knows it. But like all (socio) realists, he doesn't have the COURAGE to admit it...because he doesn't have the courage to BE against it (PREVAILING human CONSTRUCTED reality)... And his realist thinking is greatly influenced by his privileged personal situation: a legal citizen of the most powerful nation in the world, and all the privileges and personal SAFETY, it entails.

What differentiates a realist from an idealist?

COURAGE and Empathy for the rest of YOUR human race.

Courage to DESIRE, ENVISION AND USE YOUR GREAT MIND, to PERPETUALLY make things better than what they are, than JUST cowardly accept the social constructs that our physical/biological/historical reality socially CONSTRUCTED for us.

Clue: if it's constructed, it can be DE-constructed or changed.

The realist human view of people like him make me cringe and vomit. Instead of them realists using (their vast knowledge of) realism to envision, theorize, support, attain, maintain or improve on idealism in the world, they don't have the desire, enough love for the Others, imagination or courage to do those but just instead treat (social CONSTRUCTED) reality and realism as the be all and end all and the indomitable end in itself.

They're like the people hundreds of years ago who strongly believed that abolishing state sanctioned slavery or a national leader that was not a king/queen, were impossible.

Why so many theories instead of human words with wisdom?

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Very good explanation 👏

Why didn't Canada and Mexico join to contain USA when its power was rising early on in 1900s

The actions of Putin explained in 9 minutes

The example of China all makes sense now after 7 years.

the individual behavior of a state is a function of the architecture of the international system of which it is an integral part

He is one of the original propounders of structural realism bro..# John mearsheimer

Clear, simple & precise! What a perfect way to explain structural realism ! Thank you for your excellency and may uni teachers learn from his skills!!

You are simply superb

This geographical advantage is all well and good from 1776 until the 90's, but what about how we are being attacked from within with the use of technology. This technology is pitting our citizens against each other. So this neo-realism needs a neo neo to understand what is happening now.

The disinterested approach of his while understanding his own theory that he supports is mesmerizing

More like Chad Mearsheimer

This was produced 7 years ago yet the way he saw China's economic rise is unbelievably true now that we are in 2021. China has indeed showed it wants to be dominant, but not just in Asia alone, but in the world. What leaders have failed to anticipate is how fast and aggressive they want to achieve this goal.