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The most common critic toward neoclassical realism, especially coming from adherents of other strands of realism, is concerned with determination of intervening variables to take into account to develop an analysis. As argued by Stephen Walt, “neoclassical realism tends to incorporate domestic variables in an ad hoc manner, and its proponents have yet to identify when these variables will exert greater or lesser influence” (Walt, 2002: 201).