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Post-realism : the rhetorical turn in international relations / editors, Francis A. Beer, Robert Hariman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rhetoric and public affairs series.
- Rhetoric and public affairs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations and culture.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Realism.
- World politics--1989---Decision making.
- World politics.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 pages)
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post- War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; I. Refiguring Realism; Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations; II. Rereading Realist Writers; Henry Kissinger: Realism's Rational Actor; Realism Masking Fear: George F. Kennan's Political Rhetoric; Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism; E. H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist; Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion; Hans J. Morgenthau In Defense of the National Interest:On Rhetoric, Realism, and the Public Sphere; III. Rewriting Realist Concepts; Rethinking Sovereignty; The Meaning of Security
- Metaphors of Prestige and Reputation in American Foreign Policy and American Realism; Nationalism and Realist Discourses of International Relations; The Gender of Rhetoric, Reason, and Realism; A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology; IV. Rewriting Foreign Policy; Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High-Level U. S. Foreign Policy Making; The Logic of Différance in International Relations: U. S. Colonization of the Philippines; Indigenous Peoples, Marginal Sites, and the Changing Context of World Politics
- Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia; V. Post-Realism; Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities / Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman; List of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-205-9
- 0-87013-891-X
- OCLC:
- 605393437
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