International Politics
In international relations, cult of offensive is related to the security dilemma and offensive realism theories. It stresses that conquest is easy and security difficult to obtain from defensive posture. Liberal institutionalists argue that it is a commitment problem, and that preemptive war which results from the security dilemma is fairly rare.
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