The Limits of Realism after Liberal Hegemony

Abstract This review essay conducts and works to contribute an assessment of recent realist critiques liberal hegemony. It finds that realists identify important problems with hegemony, but also under scrutiny the alternative foreign policies critics offer suffer from their own serious limitations. makes case proposals “restraint” “offshore balancing” avoid associate interventionism, would be generative proxy wars, while offering insufficient additional institutions, practices, norms for mitigating managing wars great power conflict, among other global international challenges. From closer examination consideration, is, argument is made these limitations question ability order in twenty-first century suggest, quite opposite, if pursued they instead become new sources disorder, albeit avoiding some associated internationalism.