Walt's realist critique of idealism is salutary, though at Greg Grandin has shown, these rationales have long been intertwined in the US, as Walt would probably concede.https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/30/the-world-wants-you-to-think-like-a-realist/ …
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A bigger problem with realism is that it fails to recognize that consequential fault lines and divisions are not just between states, but running through them as well, with consequences for how policy and action gets formulated.
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So much US foreign policy as been characterized by what Longevall and Campbell (infelicitously) term "intermestic" caclulations, often geared to partisan competition. And threat inflation tends to run in both directions.
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The insight that so much US foreign policy is unrealistic, because unmoored from genuinely biting consequence for US elites (and perhaps broad majorities) is insightful, though one wonders for how much longer...
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Is there an article or book by Logevall and Campbell where they lay this out? That’s more or less my view on postwar US and eager to read how properly trained historians argue the point
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Actually Longevall and Craig:https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Cold-War-Politics-Insecurity/dp/0674064062 …
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