Political Science · Boston College
Class restricted to sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students. "Realism" is often invoked in international relations to mean many different things. By policymakers, it is often cited as a source of support for--and opposition to--the use of force by the U.S. in world politics. By scholars, the term realism has been deployed as a rhetorical weapon (implying opponents are "unrealistic"), as a challenge to well-intended but "utopian" foreign policies, and, often, in an academic context, as a synonym for "structuralism," which it need not be. In this cours
