Anarchy and the State state. It is as though every individual possessed a certain quantity of power, but that by default, negligence, or thoughtless and unimaginative habit or conditioning, he has allowed …

What in anarchy is given and immutable, and what is amenable to change?

Contemporary International Relations (IR) typically treats anarchy as a fundamental, defining, and analytically central feature of international relations. Furthermore, it is usually held that IR since its …

Anarchism as a political and social ideology has two separate origins. It can be seen as an ultimate derivative of liberalism or as a final end for socialism. In either case, the problems that face the …

In the subsequent sections of this article, I critically ex amine the claims and assumptions of neorealism, develop a positive argument about how self-help and power politics are socially constructed under …

Anarchy is what states make of it. Wendt recasts the realist/liberal debate as an argument over the determinants of state action in the international system: i.e., whether state action is influenced by …

Anarchy is often contrasted with law, order, or security. But anarchist societies, by which I mean societies that lack a monopoly of coercive force, need not be lawless. They can develop …