Thomas Hobbes is one of the founding fathers of the realist branch of IR, he could also be interpreted as also a neo-classical realist because as detailed in his major and famous work Leviathan, the explanation of humanity in it's rugged detailed analysis, because of Hobbes wrote other works explaining the very details of things, Leviathan is a work capturing man's ugly side. Man is greedy and warlike, and it is only the state that can save his wretched existence, but for Hobbes, the state is personified as it takes human aspects to its appearance and personality. For Hobbes, the Leviathan is just like mankind, greedy and warlike, so Hobbes could be identified as a forerunner of neorealism as his invention of Leviathan, the personification of the state is in fact, and he, or she, is just like mankind, selfish and greedy. The importance of the fact that states or the leaders of states being selfish is very important now as ever because the politicians throughout the world are further out of touch with the everyday people, as detailed in the climate change activism of the modern era.
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