Do We Learn Anything from Kirshner?
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Stephen D. Krasner
Abstract
Kirshner may be right that domestic politics does matter, but he does not tell us how to understand domestic politics. How are we, for instance, to understand domestic cohesion? How are we to understand national purpose? More important, what is the impact of nuclear weapons? Do these weapons obliterate all past information about power? Are nuclear weapons all that matter? Is it possible to fight a limited nuclear war? Is North Korea as strong as the United States? Such questions have been around since the 1950s. Kirshner does not help us to answer them.
References
Kirshner, Jonathan. 2022. An Unwritten Future. Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.10.1515/9780691233123Search in Google Scholar
Waltz, Kenneth. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: Addison Wesley.Search in Google Scholar
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