The realist school of international relations is based on the idea that great powers act in a way they believe will advance their interests.
Author: Thomas Fazi
Thomas Fazi is a journalist/writer/translator and socialist. He is the co-director of Standing Army (2010), an award-winning feature-length documentary on U.S. military bases featuring Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky; and the author of The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent – and How We Can Take It Back (Pluto Press, 2014), Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World (co-authored with Bill Mitchell; Pluto Press, 2017) and The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left (co-authored with Toby Green; 2023). His website is thomasfazi.net/