5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American international relations scholar at Dartmouth — author of Sorry States (on apology and reconciliation in international relations) — specialist in East Asian security.
American aerospace engineer and consultant who accompanied Elon Musk on his 2001–2002 trips to Russia attempting to buy decommissioned ICBMs for a Mars mission — experiences that convinced Musk to found SpaceX instead.
The theory of international relations holding that states are the primary actors in a self-help anarchic system, that state behavior is driven by the pursuit of power and national interest, and that moral norms cannot constrain interstate relations.
Rawls's The Law of Peoples (1999) extends liberal political theory to international relations, arguing for a Society of Peoples that includes both liberal and decent non-liberal societies.
American international relations scholar at Dartmouth — author of The Elusive Balance and World Out of Balance — the leading academic defender of US unipolarity as a stable international condition.