“…GNT is part of a large and growing family of political theory calling for more attention to empirical politics in theory development: political realism (B. Williams, 2005;Geuss, 2008;Galston, 2010), non-ideal theory (Anderson, 2010; see Fung, 2007; see also Sen, 2009, pp.10-18, 96-113;Goodhart, 2018, Ch.1), and others (Bauböck, 2008;Miller, 2013;Waldron, 2016;Floyd, 2020). While we cannot offer a nuanced discussion of any let alone all of these here, we use a discussion of politial realism to illustrate the role of GNT in that family.…”