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Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, Steven E. Lobell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Under his leadership Russia made a switch towards neoclassical realism approach in defining its foreign policy instruments. The realists argue that interstate relations tend to be conflictual and exist in an anarchic [4] In order to achieve and safeguard its national interests, the use of military force then becomes an important instrument in driving a state's foreign policy. Defensive and offensive realism, on the grounds that those approaches supposedly assume invariant state motivations (i.e., states always seek to maximize either security or power). Rather offensive realism and defensive realism also includes the arguments both from structural realism and neoclassical realism. 2012, pp.499-521 [gated; The authors distinguish their approach from the extant varieties of structural realism, i.e. In their recent article "The Struggle for Autonomy: A Realist Structural Theory of International Relations," International Studies Review v.14, Dec. It was a time when Russia was considered as a weak and inefficient state supporting the economies of the CIS countries making them remained in its sphere of influence. Just Because He Walks Like a Realist By Stephen M. The second phase started in 2000 along with Putin's election as president. Neoclassical Realism, while still taking primacy of the state, it does so seeing the state's foreign policy as a collective outcome of bureaucratic politics and sometimes geopolitics and elite perceptions of the state of the world. The realists emphasize self-help from the state in order to survive. Putin's started taking advantage of the 'gas weapon' on strategic CIS countries. The cynical idea that the states will only intercede in the the affairs of others when their own vested interests are at stake is a restatement of Realism, one of the more influential theories in modern International Relations. Realism describes international Neoclassical Realism looked at structural determinants rather than strictly focusing on the drive to acquire power as a behavioral expectation of individuals, and by extension states.