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unusual facts about Political realism



Robert Gilpin

Gilpin describes his view of international relations and international political economy from a "realist" standpoint, explaining in his book Global Political Economy that he considers himself a "state-centric realist" in the tradition of prominent "classical realists" such as E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau.


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John H. Herz

While at Howard, Herz wrote Political Realism and Political Idealism, a book which the American Political Science Association awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize in 1951.

Security dilemma

The term was coined by the German scholar John H. Herz in his 1951 book Political Realism and Political Idealism.

Wilson Carey McWilliams

He wrote a Masters thesis on the political realism of Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr.