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Article: Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Second-image analysis has recently staged a comeback in the study of international relations. The second image, focusing explanatory emphasis on the political structure of states, stands between the image of human nature and individual behavior on the one side and the anarchy of the international system on the other in the analytical trifocals through which scholars have come to view and interpret the international political environment. Kenneth Waltz not only originated this image terminology more than 30 years ago in Man, the State, and War (1959), but his penetrating theoretical critique of the second image was largely responsible for its long absence from serious ...