International Politics(2011) 48,441–
459. doi:10.1057/ip.2011.17
Responding to the special issue editors request, I conduct a retrospective evaluation of my own scholarship on realism and the end of the Cold War. I reprise the main arguments in light of what appears to be the most probative new evidence. I find that ,even though almost all scholars who write about the Cold War’s end either dismiss or denounce explanations informed by realist theory, these explanations actually have stood the test of time and new evidence.
