Academics from modern Western industrial political powers have largely developed the paramount theories used in contemporary international relations. As organizing concepts, realism and liberalism begin with the major political and economic powers of Europe and America. In part, this geographical context leads academics and policymakers outside Western Europe and North America to question the efficacy and importance of realism and liberalism, and their modified successor paradigms. These dominant theories also lead these same academics and policymakers to condemn the policies, programs, and strategies of the dominant world powers as marginalizing, penalizing, and in the end highly destructive to more global or non-Western policy concerns.However, current analyses of international relations and the textbooks that attempt to translate, explain, and train our students do not rely solely on the *The Editors of ISP would like to thank Susanne Davis for the excellent work she did as copy editor for this symposium.International Studies Perspectives~2002! 3, 235-257.
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