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Robert Jervis (April 30, 1940 – December 9, 2021) was an American political scientist who was the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.
The offense–defense theory of Robert Jervis helps decide the intensity of the security dilemma. Jervis uses four scenarios to describe the intensity of the security dilemma: [1] When offensive and defensive behaviour are not distinguishable but offense has an advantage, the security dilemma is "very intense" and environment is "doubly dangerous".
Coined by John H. Herz in his 1951 work Political Realism and Political Idealism, defensive neorealists believe the security dilemma, as expanded by Robert Jervis in "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma" in 1978, is defined by the assumption that the offense-defense balance tends to favour defensive capability over offensive capability. [12]
Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority.
Realism and International Politics ISBN 978-0415954785; Art, Robert J. (2008). America's Grand Strategy and World Politics ISBN 978-0415952347; Glaser, Charles L. (2010). Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation ISBN 978-0691143729
John Mearsheimer describes it as among the three most influential realist works of international relations of the 20th century, [6] Charles Glaser characterized it as the "defining work" in the neorealist international relations literature, [7] and Robert Jervis wrote in 1998 that the book was "the most important book in the field in the past ...
Neoclassical realism is a theory of international relations and an approach to foreign policy analysis. [1] Initially coined by Gideon Rose in a 1998 World Politics review article, it is a combination of classical realist and neorealist – particularly defensive realist – theories.
Hegemonic stability theory (HST) is a theory of international relations, rooted in research from the fields of political science, economics, and history.HST indicates that the international system is more likely to remain stable when a single state is the dominant world power, or hegemon. [1]