In context of the realist paradigm, Snow (2011) defines a vital interest as "properties and conditions on which states will not willingly compromise and which are thus too important to be submitted to any superiority" (pg. 27). ... The situation they are found in is a result of socially constructed paradigms. ...

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Although a lull in the tensions between the two was welcome, the shift towards parity between the two nations was difficult for a country with a historically absolutist and moralistic worldview toward international affairs. ...

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