Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“When the late Justin Raimondo, co-founder and longtime editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote in 2011 that the anti-interventionist movement needed a ‘big picture’ framework, he was attempting to distill decades of polemic into a theory of international relations. In his essay ‘Looking at the ‘Big Picture,’’ he dubbed this framework ‘Libertarian Realism.’ Though Raimondo never set down a book-length treatise, his insights remain an invitation for libertarians to articulate a systematic foreign policy rooted in their own intellectual traditions. At its core, libertarian realism rests on two pillars: public choice theory and the non-aggression principle (NAP).” (10/09/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/libertarian-realism-justin-raimondos-challenge-to-empire