Described as a brillig success for the European Union, a free trade treaty has been signed with Borogovia, after only fifteen years of negotiation. Commission negotiator M Barnier said “We initially found the Borogoves too mimsy in their approach, but as we made progress after the first decade or so, we came to appreciate more of their culture of mutuality and personal donation even where we outgrabe. It is a good result for all.”
The new treaty will eliminate customs duties on 90% of all goods European businesses export to Borogovia and on some of the goods flowing the other way. A Commission spokesman emphasised that the new deal represents a new approach with developing countries like Borogovia as trade brings prosperity to both sides: until now, the European Union has been content to ship state-subsidised food products to undercut local farmers, but now it may be time to permit the remaining, unbankrupted Borogoves access to sell in the European market.
Asked whether the new treaty will force the Borogoves to change their regulatory system to follow the rules of the European Union, M Barnier responded angrily ‘That would be a ridiculous demand to make: what honest country would accept such humiliation, and what honest negotiator would even suggest it?”
The Commission’s spokesman was at pains to emphasise the dedication of their negotiating team in reaching this point after only one and a half decades.
The United Kingdom secured a comprehensive trade and investment treaty with Borogovia in two months.
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Realists frequently claim to draw on an ancient tradition of political thought. Among classic authors often cited by realists are Thucydides, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Max Weber. Realism as a self-conscious movement in the study of international relations emerged during the mid-h century and was inspired by the British political scientist and historian E.H. Carr. Carr attacked what he perceived as the dangerous and deluded “idealism” of liberal internationalists and, in particular, their belief in the possibility of progress through the construction of international institutions, such as the League of Nations. He focused instead on the perennial role of power and self-interest in determining state behaviour. The outbreak of World War II converted many scholars to that pessimistic vision. Thereafter, realism became established in American political science departments, its fortunes boosted by a number of emigre European scholars, most notably the German-born political scientist and historian Hans Morgenthau. It is the realism of Carr, Morgenthau, and their followers that is labeled classical.