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Despite some attempts to announce its demise, the doctrine of realism still looms large in the field of international studies and political science more generally. For some its presence is like a huge black cloud, for others it illuminates the field like a great sun. But either way (and for other less extreme metaphorical descriptions) there is a good deal of obscurity about just what realism asserts.
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Tony Coady, C.A.J. (2007). The Moral Reality in Realism. In: Primoratz, I. (eds) Politics and Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625341_7
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