NEOREALIZM HEGEMONICZNY JAKO RECEPTA NA MANKAMENTY REALIZMU STRUKTURALNEGO
HEGEMONIC NEOREALISM AS A REMEDY FOR THE SHORTCOMINGS OF STRUCTURAL REALISM

Summary/Abstract: Since the final decades of the last century, structural realism (neorealism) hasbecome the dominant paradigm in the sciences of international relations as well as ingeopolitics. Its assumptions have further gained popularity under the circumstances ofChina's growing power and the worsening conflict between Russia and the West. Themain weakness of structural realism is that it is a static concept that does not show thephenomenon of "change" to understand the evolution of the wider internationalsystem. A critical look at structural realism is the source of a new concept - hegemonicneorealism, in which the author creatively develops the assumptions of the realists in away that makes it possible to account for hegemonic change in the internationalsystem. The leading goal of the article is to present the author's theoretical proposalwith the aim of providing the neorealist research perspective with adequateexplanatory capabilities in the face of the challenges of the 21st century - such as theongoing Sino-American hegemonic rivalry.

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