And as Philip Reiff responded Not Only Historians...

[Mark Thibodeau]

Could you be referring to that old International Relations standby notion
that major powers pretty much always act in ways that benefit said power's
interests?

Does anybody really take that idea seriously anymore? I mean, even
long-lived liberal democracies are disproving this notion nowadays.

Jerky

On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 4:42 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Terrence Peterson 🇺🇦@dr_tgpeterson·6hThere is a certain amount of
> historian schadenfreude in seeing a major IR theory collapse under the
> weight of contextual complexity
>
> but so many can't handle contextual complexity
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