Political realism

first proposed. As an approach to international politics, realism can be seen as a response to the utopian thought that occupied the thoughts of students of international…

A lot of times, whether artistic or cultural, movements came to be as a reaction to the previous one. This is equally the case for the famous art movements throughout the 19th century. The realism style was created as a reaction to romanticism, just as romanticism was created as a response to the serious nature of neoclassicism. Both provided a huge impact on the art world. During the romanticsm era, J.M.W Turner painted The Slave Ship as an effort to bring awareness to the issue of slavery. In…

The Cautious Approach to U.S. Grand Strategies in Foreign Policy While there is a general consensus that in the post-Cold War era, the United States emerged as the world’s unipolar superpower, the role of superpower continues to be widely debated. Political realists err on the cautious side and see other state actors as possible threats not only to the balance of power, but also to the U.S. itself. Realist policy prepares for the worst. Neoconservatives believe that the U.S.’s democratic idea…

If states were able to cooperate, would the world be a better place? What would be the likely hood of all of the state’s cooperating? In this essay, I will present two arguments, which will spell out the neorealist point of view and the neoliberal point of view of international cooperation. The neorealist believe that it would be difficult to have international cooperation because they are worried about having equal distribution of power within states, and being able to trust other states. The…

beginning of the Realism movement in France, but artworks created in the years surrounding the revolution also convey the social issues brought about by the unstable political system. Artists departed from Romanticism, which had been popular since the late 18th century, and in turn abandoned the drama, emotion, and exotic subject matter that accompanied the artistic movement. In contrast, artists began to favor the portrayal of ‘real life’ situations, creating the birth of Realism. Realists…

Arousal of Political Realism in Mahasweta Devi’s “MOTHER OF 1084” Abstract Political realism has generally related to the actual or correct picture of events and most classically in the region of literature, art, and film. In Mother of 1084Sujata, the central figure is a misfit in her own family. Though she is well aware of the corrupt degenerated values represented by her husband Dibyanath, she fails to disconnect herself with them and leads a compromising life. She loves her younger son, Brati…

attractive or even more attractive to invest in the periphery than to invest domestically. Even though profits flowed into the powerful state, investors typically didn’t account for the “availability of skilled workers, inadequate infrastructure and political instability” of the less developed regions they were investing in. So even though Lenin claimed that super profits existed in the periphery, “the actual experience of his investors [did] not support his view.” The socialist theory of…

Discovery can encompass the many experiences of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. These discoveries can change an individual’s perspective of human nature and the wider world. The theme of discovery is projected throughout the play, ‘The Tempest’ (1610), by William Shakespeare and the novel, ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ (1999), by Stephen Chbosky. The Tempest, written in the Jacobean era and reflecting aspects and…

Magical realism has many elements. One of the most common ones are the elements of the magical and the mundane interwoven seamlessly, the story is set in an otherwise ordinary world with familiar historical and/or cultural realities, and objects and setting within the story taking lives of their own in a way that is ordinary to the characters. These characteristics can be found in the following stories. Magical realism is the blend between reality and the extraordinary. Both texts, “A Very Old…

1. Canadian films have long been compared to American films and described in the sense of being “not American”. There have been many ways we historically separate Canadian films from American films, and it has mostly been through showing the differences between the two. Canadian films, historically, must have Canadian elements to be considered uniquely Canadian. This could mean Canadian actors, a Canadian director, Canadian funding, or, most prominently, a Canadian setting. Specifically, as Jim…