Realism

1. It is to approach reality from a rational scheme. The necessary driver between reason and facts, by which we understand facts, is the interest defined in terms of power. This is the main indicator of international politics.

1.1. central position in the study of IR

1.2. FOUNDATION IS THE PRINCIPLE OF dominance

1.3. a broad intellectual relations mainly in terms of power .

1.4. compettition

2. realis developed in reaction to a liberal tradition that realists called idealism

2.1. main characteristics

2.1.1. It has the greatest weight and is the most widely used theory in the discipline of International Relations.

2.1.1.1. interwar period

2.1.1.2. World War I,II

2.1.1.3. it occurred in the ancient empires of kings and kings

2.1.1.4. generating wars of nations for expansionism and political and religious ideals.

2.1.2. It explains global phenomena in terms of politics and power.

2.1.3. realism rejects the existence of a possible harmony of interests and conflict is considered connatural to the international system.

2.1.4. is a conservative and pessimistic theory that defends and manipulates the forces of world anti-narcotics, interpreting the state as a supreme entity focusing and growing its economic power.

3. since WWII, realists have blamed idealists for looking too much at how really is

3.1. politics is govered by objective laws with roots in human nature .

3.2. national interest is defined in terms of power

3.3. moral signifincance of political action.

3.4. emphasis on security for a way of showing that states .

4. is based on the belief that relations with other countris should be guides by national self -interest .