The Influence Of Globalization In Mearsheimer's Offensive Realism

Mearsheimer adhered to realism, or more accurately, to Neo-Realism, and even articulated a more resolute version of it, which he named “Offensive Realism”. In his neorealist paradigm, Mearsheimer argued that international order would continue to be the race pursuit forto power, as it has always been. He described conflict as tragic, because states end in up fighting despite for their desire for to obtain peace. In the absence of world government to enforce law and rights, states find it impossible to trust one another and strive for self-defense. This drives them to seek dominance and control. In a way, he claimed that there is nothing is really new about the new world. Mearsheimer predicted that thee revival of traditional conflicts would

Fukuyama understood the importance of globalization and the spread of Western values and ideas around the world, but interpreted it as a unifying and stabilizing power. Also, Fukuyama dismissed the importance of religion, specifically Islam, and considered it as a minor distraction towards from attaining a peaceful world.
Mearsheimer tends to realism, and therefore, diminishes the importance of culture and seeking forof identity in the modern world, and emphasizes the importance of nation states, great powers, self-help and the race chase for power. Much before him, Fouad Ajami (Ajami, The summoning:'But they said, we will not hearken, 1993) criticized Huntington:. “Civilizations do not control states…states control civilizations”. States try to balance power, and Huntington himself admits in his article that “nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs”. (Huntington S. P., 2011, p. 34)
None of the three visions won outturned out to be as the ruling most accurate theory and new conventional wisdom, but they stood out more than any other vision that has been offered in the past. as no other vision have yet been offered to match their

Realism hasve hazy contoursa hazy contour and offers only difficult choices in the new world. Globalization has three forms: economic globalization, which has become a cause for inequality among and within states. and tThe concern for global competitiveness limits the aptitude of states, and other actors and institutions to address this problem; cultural globalization, which offers either unification (also Americanization) or reaction against it, takitakesng form in a renaissance of local cultures and denunciation of an arrogant “imperialist” Western culture; political globalization, which is the preponderance of the West and its political institutions, or as Huntignton defines it- the “Davos elite” as Huntington defines it. These forms of globalization, mostly creating resistance rather that integration, it can be inferreddeduce that globalization is far from making history’s end, refuting the thought idea of a universal modern world. (Hoffman,