The Return of Raison d’État: National Interest and Survival in the Post-Liberal International Order
By Spyros Tsaparas* Introduction The fall of the Soviet Union marked the end of an era where states had as an official policy survival, security and national interest or as described by international relations theory, Raison d’état. This practice of classical statecraft was succeeded by the ideals of liberal idealism as the biggest ideological competitor […]
