Indeed, while the greatest threats to peace once came from power politics and economic rivalry, they now increasingly derive from the regional and global repercussions of the political and social disintegration of stable countries, a decline of their normative and institutional systems, and new totalitarian ideologies. This is why the opposition between so-called “realists” and “idealists” in foreign policy, and between proponents of “hard” and “soft” power, is proving to be a thing of the past.