The Neoidealist Moment in International Studies? Realist Myths and the New International Realities: ISA Presidential Address March 27, 1993 Acapulco, Mexico

Abstract

To provoke discussion, this presidential address to the International Studies Association asks the question whether changes in the new, post-Cold War international system require revision of our paradigmatic propensities. In particular, it suggests that the recent transformations in world politics have created a hospitable home for the reconstruction of realism inspired by Wilsonian idealism, and outlines a revised research agenda consistent with these new conditions and the hypotheses the idealist tradition raises for our field's attention.