Associate with Appeasement

It might sound weird that a theory focusing on the competing nature of international relations

is associated with appeasement, but remember I mentioned earlier, realism actually encourages

the leader to only use military force when it serves their national interests and generally

opposes liberal interventionism, an idea propose that liberal international organizations and

nations can intervene in other nations in order to pursue liberal objectives.

As a result, In the mid-20th century, realism was seen as discredited in the United Kingdom

due to its association with appeasement in the 1930s.

It re-emerged slowly during the Cold War.