Structuralisme et néoréalisme dans le champ des relations internationales. Le cas de Kenneth Waltz

Abstract

This article is an attempt to link the study of a political thought movement, neorealism, with a social sciences methodology, structuralism. Both currents have followed different paths, throughout the period that lasted from after the Second World War to the end of the seventies, until Kenneth Waltz made them match in 1979. After defining both neorealism and structuralism, this paper tries to connect them, and thus understand the reasons why the parallelism wasn’t made until then.

Keywords

• anarchy
• balance of powers
• combinatorial analysis
• international relations
• Kenneth Waltz
• neorealism