WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)
Introduction
[Dominant theory of international relations: REALISM]
[F]irst, that states tend to focus their foreign policy upon the pursuit of state power...
Second, states tend to base their judgments about the appropriate
policy to pursue on the basis of the incentives and constraints of the
the "international system," which realists define as the international
configuration of states....
The third assumption is that states act rationally in the pursuit of their goals.
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