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Realism has conventionally been cast as the antithesis of rhetoric. In contrast, this article argues that recovering the relationship between realism and rethoric is important not only for challenging disciplinary and methodological orthodoxies that obstruct creative theorizing, but also for its incisive contributiuons to thinking about American foreign policy amidst the profound changes and challenges it confronts today.
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