THE NEOIDEALIST MOMENT IN INTERNATIONAL-STUDIES - REALIST MYTHS AND THE NEW INTERNATIONAL REALITIES - ISA PRESIDENTIAL-ADDRESS MARCH 27, 1993 ACAPULCO, MEXICO

To provoke discussion, this presidential address to the International Studies Association asks the question whether changes in the new, post -Cold War international system require revision of our paradigmatic pr opensities. In particular, it suggests that the recent transformations in world politics have created a hospitable home for the reconstructi on of realism inspired by Wilsonian idealism, and outlines a revised r esearch agenda consistent with these new conditions and the hypotheses the idealist tradition raises for our field's attention.