Discussion
Who among the following stated that 'the central theme of International relations is not evil, but tragedy' ?
Answer: B
The keyed answer is Robert Jervis.
I could not confirm that this sentence appears in Jervis's writing, so the attribution rests on the official key. The idea it states, that international conflict is often tragic rather than the work of wicked actors, fits his best-known contribution, the security dilemma: when states seek only their own security, the steps they take can make others feel insecure and provoke the very conflict they feared, without anyone intending harm.
The tragic view of politics has older roots in classical realism, for example in Herbert Butterfield's argument that wars come from mutual misunderstanding between states that incline to peace, which is why a reader may be tempted by a different name. Of the options given, Buzan is known for the contested concept of security, Raymond Aron for his sociology of war and peace between sovereign states, and Stephen Walt for the balance of threat, none of which is a statement about tragedy.
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