Varieties Of Realism Research Articles

Transforming the pattern of conflict: Geopolitics and post‐cold‐war Europe

Abstract What role will Western Europe play in the post‐cold‐war world? Most assessments of the new Europe see it as an emerging component in a new balance of power from a realist or neorealist standpoint. The problem with the varieties of realism is that they ignore geography, which leads them into abstractions about stability in the international system based upon the number of actors. Thus, whether Europe is seen as being stabilizing or not depends on what type of polarity is seen as being most stable. A geopolitical approach to the new Europe is quite different from this, although geopolitics and realism are not entirely separate since both share an array of power‐centric variables. But rather than seeing Western Europe as simply a new actor, whose behavior will be a function of its balancing calculations vis‐d‐vis other actors, Western Europe will be an amphibious center of power that will have structurally expressed interests on land and sea, which will interact with other powers with structurally e...

Varieties of realism: a rationale for the natural sciences

Provocative and controversial ...introduces a form of scientific realism that promises to do justice to the actual history and practice of science while avoiding the sterile and basically absurd, logic-chopping of traditional philosophy.' Times Literary Supplement

Reviews: Perspective and other Drawing systems, Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art, the Child's Point of View: The Development of Cognition and Language

Reviews: Perspective and other Drawing systems, Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art, the Child's Point of View: The Development of Cognition and Language

Margaret A. Hagen. Varieties of realism: geometries of representational art. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 338 pp., 178 illus., 5 tables. £39.50 & $54.50 hardback, £12.95 & $22.95 paperback. - Heinrich Schäfer, translated by John Baines from the 4th German edition of 1963. Principles of Egyptian art. Revised reprint. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1986 (distributed by

Margaret A. Hagen. Varieties of realism: geometries of representational art. Cambridge &amp; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 338 pp., 178 <i>illus.</i>, 5 <i>tables</i>. £39.50 &amp; $54.50 <i>hardback</i>, £12.95 &amp; $22.95 <i>paperback</i>. - Heinrich Schäfer, translated by John Baines from the 4th German edition of 1963. Principles of Egyptian art. Revised reprint. Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1986 <i>(distributed by