Two Critiques of Realism
The dominance of realism in IR during the second half of the twentieth century, especially in the United States,spawned a substantial literature that criticizes many of itself rose to a tions and arguments (see wed link 3.30) . As indicated in Chapter2, realism itself rose to a position of academic pre-eminence in the 1940s and 1950s by effectively criticizing the liberal idealism of the interwar period.Neorealism has been involved in a renewed debate with liberalism.We shall investigate that debate in Chapter4.Here we shall confine our discussion to two important critiques of realism: an International Society critique and an emancipatory critigue.