‘The realist approach to international politics and foreign policy does not devote much, if any, attention to the issue of potential pandemics like the
COVID-19 outbreak. Despite these obvious limitations, realism can still offer useful insights into some of the issues that the new coronavirus outbreak has
raised.’
– Foreign Policy, 9 March 2020
Evaluate how realism has informed the behaviour of states in the current pandemic by linking at least four international examples to realist tenets.