The revival of realism as an IPE perspective in the 1970s and 1980s stemmed partly from Question 10 options: the realist belief that the growth of interdependence made the study of IPE essential. increasing disarray in the global economy related to US economic challenges. the interest of realists in the Cold War and how it related to the global political economy. the new realist view that economics had become even more important than politics in IPE