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Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma?

Randall L. Schweller
- 01 Mar 1996 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 3, pp 90-121
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In this paper, Neorealism's status-quo bias: What security dilemma? Security Studies: Vol 5, No. 5, Realism: Restatements and Renewal, pp. 90-121.
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(1996). Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma? Security Studies: Vol. 5, Realism: Restatements and Renewal, pp. 90-121.

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International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

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The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders

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Neoclassical Realism and Theories of Foreign Policy

Gideon Rose
- 01 Oct 1998 - 
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The Stability of a Unipolar World

TL;DR: In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the sole surviving superpower as mentioned in this paper, and a new grand strategy was proposed to preserve unipolarity by preventing the emergence of a global rival.
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Ontological Security in World Politics: State Identity and the Security Dilemma

TL;DR: It is proposed that in addition to physical security, states also seek ontological security, or security of the self, by routinizing relationships with significant others, and actors therefore become attached to those relationships.
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The Evolution of Cooperation

TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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The Evolution of Cooperation

TL;DR: A model is developed based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game to show how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
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The End of History and the Last Man

TL;DR: Fukuyama as mentioned in this paper identifies two powerful forces guiding our actions: the logic of desire (the rational economic process); and the desire for recognition, which he describes as the very motor of history.

After hegemony : cooperation and discord in the world politicaleconomy

TL;DR: Keohane as mentioned in this paper analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes", through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the evolution of these regimes as American hegemony has eroded.