And as Philip Reiff responded Not Only Historians...

[Mark Kohut]

All i am referring to is "everything is changed, changed utterly"---Yeats...
I do not know what theory this guy is referring to, but he seems to be
pointing to something more complex than that.
I thought of all the justifications for old Putin.....

On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 6:05 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>