omote conflict, but by making itself more powerful, the other country feels more threatened. After this war, Thucydides explained in the "Melian dialogue," he wrote that, in interstate relations, "the strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept (Thucydides, 402)." For him, international relations allow the mighty do as they please and force the weak to suffer as they must.
             Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes were very important classical philosophers, who influenced realism long ago. Machiavelli highlighted the importance to only be immoral when necessary. "For a man who wants to make a profession of good in all regards must come to ruin among many who are not good. Hence it is necessary to a prince, if he wants to maintain himself to le
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