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Finally, the conclusion will weigh up the results drawn from the discussion and assess Thucydides’ place in International Relations scholarship. Then the arguments for and the arguments against its inclusion in International Relations scholarship will be considered. In this review I will first look at the content of the text, its tone, and its intention as Thucydides states it. However, scholars such as Gilpin (1984), who argues that the history is indeed located in the realist tradition, oppose this view and defend the realist possession of Thucydides. Welch (2003), Garst (1989), and others have argued that Thucydides has been hijacked and used as a mouthpiece to express and justify views that he not only didn’t imply in his work, but may have outright disagreed with. Recently however, certain scholars have begun to doubt the realist commandeering of this ancient writing. Indeed, while reading his History of the Peloponnesian War, it is not hard to see how so many theorists have appropriated his work as an example of the everlasting realist qualities inherent in politics. Thucydides is often cited as the father of realism in International Relations.
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