ABSTRACT
Whether or not there has been really as much renewal in the discipline of International Relations (IR), as the end of the Cold War seemed to call for, realists, for sure, have found themselves under closer scrutiny again. This came at a time when Realism might have lost its predominant theoretical status and yet still stood at the centre of much IR debate. For Realism provided the core to be criticised, as attested by the earlier poststructuralist critique via the neo—neo ‘debate’ to the recent constructivist turn.
