Stannis Baratheon: Liberal Institutionalist
Stannis looks like a realist. He murders his brother, using a priestess and religion in which he doesn't believe, and then takes on dead Renly's allies. But he is the one character who is absolutely committed to the laws that govern power. He led Storm's End through a year-long siege, assaulted Dragonstone, put down the first Greyjoy rebellion and in return accepted a minor lordship because his brother Robert ordered it. He won't end the war, despite his near-hopeless position, because the law says he is the rightful ruler. If institutions raise men from beasts, Stannis alone fights for a better tomorrow. Hillary Clinton follows the laws as well. For all her supposed realism on the campaign trail and after, Hillary's most noteworthy accomplishments exist solely as international legalities. She has a nuclear treaty with Russia and a sanctions resolution on Iran, even as the Obama administration's biggest wins -- the killing of Osama bin Laden and the fall of Libya's Gaddafi -- came packaged in hard power. Clinton's 2010 Foreign Affairs article was likewise heavy on diplomacy and development and low on unilaterally killing Greyjoys. Hillary could no more support Robb Stark's world without definitions than a Daenerys-ish liberation odyssey into Syria.
