[1] Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987), 515.
[2] Robert Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 156.
[3] Richard Ned Lebow, The Tragic Vision of Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 361.
[4] 针对将中国传统哲学的政治决定论与现代的现实主义国际关系理论相结合的研究,澳大利亚国立大学研究员张峰于2012年将其称为“道义现实主义”。参见Zhang Feng, “The Tsinghua Approach and the Inception of Chinese Theories of International Relations,” Chinese Journal of International Politics, 5, no.1 (2012): 95-96。