According to John Rourke, realism focuses on the self-interested promotion of the state and nation. ... Criticalism claims that both liberalism and realism are just fooling people with rhetoric. ... Islamism offers that both realism and liberalism are actually trying to have Christianity dominates the world. ... Constructivists are a little bit similar to criticalists because they all criticize liberalism and realism. ... Realism and liberalism are the two leading theories in world politics. ...

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The national security policy of the United States has been long debated on whether it was more motivated by realism or liberalism tendencies in preceding times. ... On the realist side, there are arguments that the US has implemented both offensive and defensive realism tendencies in the past. ... Liberalists argue that the containment policy was all in the name of democracy and that may be somewhat true, but offensive realism shows to be the underlining factor in my opinion. Promoting democracy in European countries is an idealistic form of liberalism but it also portrays offensive realism. ....

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Realism is based on 3 ideas: States are the only actors that matter, policy maker's responsibility is to create, maintain and increase national power, and No other authority can stand above the state. ...

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Assignment The developments initiated by Stalin between 1928 and 1940 all had the effect of increasing the role of the state in Soviet society. Discuss. Response In order to assess how Stalin attained and upheld complete power in the 1930's it is necessary to examine the factors which led his driv...

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Lenin first defined the economic organisation of 1918-20 as "war" communism. This was in his pamphlet "The Tax in Kind" (1921). In this pamphlet he described it as follows: " a peculiar war communism was forced on us by extreme want, ruin and war it was not, and could not be, a policy that corresponded to the economic tasks of the proletariat." (Malle 1985) In early 1918 Lenin was faced with two main problems. Firstly feeding the workers in the face of severe grain shortages and secondly keeping the workers in the cities to manufacture arms and essential supplies. ...

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