+1 862 207 3288 Neorealism is also known as structural realism, which indicates that the theory principally focuses on the structural analysis of the international relations (IR) when it attempts to explicate outcomes in international politics. In the field of international relations theory, Kenneth Waltz is one of the major scholarly figures since the late 1970s when he published his historic book Theory of International Politics in 1979 (Hanami and Walt, 2003). Waltz strengthened the realist paradigm in international relations and emphasised the importance of political, state and the role of structure in the functioning of the international system. The main idea of neorealism is based around the concept of structure and neorealist theory of Waltz became popular as the structural-realism (Hanami and Walt, 2003). Neorealism looks for separating the internal determinants of the in…(short extract)
