How does it make sense to evaluate an international situation if you're going to completely ignore the red cross, UN, WTO, OECD, World Bank, IMF, and every single corporation. Because if you know your realism, those are all out the window in their analysis. You can't argue that that is not fucking retarded, seeing as they use them for developing countries all the fucking time.
You can't even grasp the inside of a nation without companies. Oh wait, I forgot, realists don't believe in analysing the endogenous factors, they don't see how maybe the composition of a country might influence its foreign policy.
Realism certainly has its uses, but is dwarfed and under the umbrella of far more comprehensive theories, namely social constructivism. Without looking at how things are legitimized and institutionalized, you cannot comprehend any given situation.
You so clearly epitomize the thinking limited to the confines of realism it's fucking making me want to type with my forehead. You'd be laughed out of a fucking IR circle.
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