According to an article published on the official website of Mount Holyoke College which is

位於 馬薩諸塞州南哈德利的一所私立文理學院

a private liberal art college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Realism is an approach to the

曼荷蓮學院官方網站上發表的一篇文章稱 ，現實主義是一種

study and practice of international politics.

研究和實踐國際政治的方法。

It emphasizes the role of the nations and makes a broad assumption that all nations

它強調國家的作用，並做出了一個廣泛的假設，即所有國家都

are motivated by national interests, or, at best, national interests disguised as moral

受到國家利益的驅動，或者充其量只是偽裝成道德

concerns.

關切的國家利益。