Usually, the states attain, maintain, and sustain power to ensure peace and prosperity for their people; however, the great powers do that to impose their will on the relatively smaller and weaker states. That is the dark side of the most popular and practised international relations theory, realism.

Notwithstanding its widespread appeal and practice, realism has failed to bring peace, stability, and security at any level (Global, Regional, or Sub-regional). Realism preached for the acquisition of power to ensure security and protect interests. Ideally speaking, if it was done without causing harm and without impinging on the interests of the other states, it was fine. However, precisely the opposite has happened.

The great powers, since time immemorial, have promoted and protected their interests by subjugating the interests of the relatively weaker and smaller states. To expand their perimeter of security, the great powers continue to act as revisionists under the broad heading of ‘ensuring territorial integrity.’

The great powers, since time immemorial, have promoted and protected their interests by subjugating the interests of the relatively weaker and smaller states.

Israel has been doing it since its establishment in 1948, and is........

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