Political realism has its roots in E.H. Carr's analysis of Thucydides, Hobbes, and Machiavelli, who all they can approve that they did not call themselves realists at the time of their writings. It holds the value of the state and classical realists believe that man is innately selfish, whereas neorealists believe states are selfish due to the anarchical state system. The classical branch of realism has its roots in Hobbes' Preservation Theory, which he states people are selfish. It can also include Machiavelli's revolutionary undertakings of an armed rebellion against the greedy banking family of Florence, the Medici. Thucydides and Machiavelli were both military men and wrote a lot about military strategy, including the Thucydides Trap. Kenneth Waltz was the first writer to pen the term neorealist. Realism is essentially an amalgamation of a few different theories.
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