Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
To this I would add: the “smuggling in unstated assumptions” point is linked to a normative critique. Realists have a very specific normative worldview, unstated and not really theorized, that they smuggle in by arguing it’s the only one possible given how the world really works — PolitiTweet.org
Ken Schultz @KSchultz3580
Not sure which “people” this is referring to, but most academic IR scholars don’t hate realism for its gloom and am… https://t.co/20aLdRTiuF
