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International relation theories can be defined as a systematic and critical assessment of international relations based on wide arrays of factors and variables like power, dominance, sources, resources, economy and social environments (Dougherty, Pfaltzqraff, 1996).... The paper "The Role of International Relation in the Context of Afghanistan War 2001" states that the initiatives taken by the United States based on realism and neo-realism theories have been supported well by other nations because of the global quest for peace and harmony....
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The essay "Hans Morgenthau and Kenneth Waltz" Identifies the major differences between the classical realism of Hans Morgenthau and the structural realism of Kenneth Waltz.... The classical realism work of Hans Morgenthau was to be later succeeded by Kenneth waltz.... realism theories can be traced back to Thucydides and ancient Greek during the Peloponnesian war in 5th century BC, however, the study of the theory came about 2500 years later....
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Each of these acts had one or several norms behind to determine its normative consequences.... The term is troublesome because relations between the work of scholars generally held to be post-structuralists (as, virtually without exception, they do not identify themselves as such) are often contentious, and there is nothing like a common set of works to which they all refer as shared doctrine (rather unlike structuralism, where the work of Claude Lvi-Strauss1 is regarded as a common point of reference)....
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The essay "Neorealism and Classical realism" analyzes Is Neorealism (or Structural realism) a superior theoretical approach to Classical realism.... Morgenthau's theory of classical realism was supper ceded by Kenneth Waltz' concept of neorealism.... The study therefore compares and contrasts the various aspects of Neorealism and classical realism with an aim of determining whether Neorealism is superior.... The first part defines the general conceptions of neorealism and classical realism as portrayed by the individual scholars....
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Morgenthau elaborated six principles of political realism, which remained at the very core of his contributions toward the understanding of international politics.... realism, it should be noted here, seeks to explain the world as it is, rather than how it should be; therefore, as a theory of IR, it is purely explanatory of the existing reality, and makes no adjudication in normative terms about what goals or objectives nation-states should follow and how they should approach such ends....
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Credit for conceptualizing the notion of film language goes significantly to the work of the Russian Formalists that further inspired to articulate many normative grammars of cinema (Stam, Burgoyne and Flitterman, 1992).... The paper "Semiotics of Cinema and Film Theory" discusses the conception of film language dated back in the practice of structural linguistics, French New Wave movement that supported the emphasis on filmmaking techniques to improve the relationship between visual representation and reality, the ties between psychoanalysis and cinema....
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The technique is important to the development of movies because more and more, heightened realism is achieved by the other elements of the mise-en-scene other than the contents of the visual frame.... Dolby's more faithful rendering of acoustic detail constructs several acoustic planes that permit the auditor not only to hear individual sounds more clearly but to identify the spatial dimension from which it emanates....
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The paper "realism and it's Ontologically Meaning" describes that realism is perhaps the most discussed term in the history of cinema.... It has propagated towards what one calls cinematic realism.... The stress on metaphorical allusions through which each character tries to seek redemption degrades the realism of the movie.... Locke's conception of realism is similar on a few grounds but Locke has introduced the theories of idealistic realism and materialistic realism....
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