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By Solomon Bennett The foreign policy priorities outlined during the RNC reflect a foreign policy of contradictions. The tendencies of President Trump and the Republican Party—distain for federal government, friendliness with powerful moneyed interests, and policies of austerity and privatization—are increasingly incongruent with national priorities both domestically and internationally. In 2016, President Trump struck a…

By Realist Review writers and staff It’s been a long summer, made longer still by the synchronous cataclysms of pandemic, economic collapse, social unrest and the ongoing international scourge of scary-looking murder hornets. What to do? Lay on the couch and read, of course! Our writers and staff have been working hard at it, tackling…

Image by David Saveliev   Essay by Ken Lohatepanont World order, argues many scholars of international relations, is characterized by its very disorder — an anarchic situation where states exist in a Hobbbesian state of nature. “The strong do what they can”, said Thucydides, “and the weak suffer what they must”. It follows that when…