In this essay, the insufficiency of the realist or neorealist school to explain contemporary international reality or, mutatis mutandi, the need for new cognitive maps to understand it is raised. We hold that there are four levels that have an importance not only explanatory but also causal diametrically opposed to that assigned to it by the classical school; These are: the East-West power conflict; second, the relative position of the great centers of world power; third, the emergence of a more fragmented and interdependent world that tends, if not to dilute, at least to restrict the capacity of these great powers by involving them in an increasing number of international games of uncertain results and, finally, the step into the forefront of a set of human factors that had not previously been considered within the classical repertoire of power resources.
Keywords:
International Politics, International System, Neorealism, Theory and Methodology, International Relations
Author Biography
Luciano Tomassini, Instituto deEstudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile
Coordinador del Programa de Estudios Conjuntos sobre las Relaciones Internacionales de América Latina (RIAL) y asesor regional de CEPAL. Es director de la revista Estudios Internacionales.
Tomassini, L. (1990). La política internacional después del Muro. Estudios Internacionales, 23(91), p. 281–338. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1990.15516
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