国际关系经典选读

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PREFACE VIII
INTRODUCTION I
Ⅰ THEORIES AND TRADITONS
Ⅱ THE SIRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL SUSTEM
Ⅲ THE ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL POLILICS
Ⅳ ANARCHY AND SOU=CIAETY IN IHE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Ⅴ DETERRENCE， CRISIS，AND WAR
Ⅵ THE COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Ⅶ INTERNATTONAL RELATIONS AFTER THE COLD WQR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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THE FOUNDATIONS OF REALISM
Realism enters the field far behind utopianism and by way of reaction from it. The thesis that "justice is the right of the stronger" was, indeed, familiar in the Hellenic world. But it never represented anything more than the protest of an uninfluential minority, puzzled by the divergence between political theory and political practice. Under the supremacy of the Roman Empire, and later of the Catholic Church, the problem could hardly arise; for the political good, first of the empire, then of the church, could be regarded as identical with moral good. It was only with the breakup of the mediaeval system that the divergence be?tween political theory and political practice became acute and challenging. Machiavelli is the first important political realist.
Machiavelli's starting-point is a revolt against the utopianism of current political thought:
It being my intention to write a thing which shall be useful to him who ap?prehends it, it appears to me more appropriate to follow up the real truth of a matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and prin?cipalities which in fact have never been seen and known, because how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
The three essential tenets implicit in Machiavelli's doctrine are the foundation-stones of the realist philosophy. In the first place, history is a sequence of cause and effect, whose course can be analysed and understood by intellectual effort, but not (as the Utopians believe) directed by "imagination." Secondly, theory does not (as the Utopians assume) create practice, but practice theory. In Machiavelli's words, "good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels." Thirdly, politics are not (as the Utopians pretend) a function of ethics,
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