MEĐUNARODNI PROBLEMI

NEOCLASSICAL REALISM: REALISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

TRAPARA Vladimir (Naučni saradnik u Institutu za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), vtrapara@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

The author deals with neoclassical realism, the approach which emerged within the realist school of thought about international relations during the nineties of the last century. The goal of the paper is to consider the establishment and development of the approach during this decade and later in the 21st century, in order to show that it improved the realist school of thought and thus responded to the challenge that the end of the Cold War posed to it. This improvement consists of an integration of systemic level of analysis, on which neorealism insists, with unit level, from which classical realism and other IR schools of thought start. The author illustrates the application of neoclassical realism on the research of the topics relevant for the 21st century through the examples of several significant titles within the approach, but also citing his own application of the approach.

Keywords: neoclassical realism, international relations in the 21st century, World War II, the United States foreign policy, levels of analysis