The Edinburgh companion to political realism / edited by Robert Schuett and Miles Hollingworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuett, Robert

Contributor:

Schuett, Robert, editor.

Hollingworth, Miles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 572 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

The first reference work to explore the 2000-year history of political realism and reassess its place in today’s worldDownload an ebook of the chapter abstracts and notes on contributors (pdf)Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs.Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order.Key FeaturesThe first volume to offer a full, balanced guide to Political Realism: its history and its normative role in international affairsCovers the main thinkers, from Thucydides through Niccolò Machiavelli to Isaiah BerlinEngages with the major foreign policy issues of our times, such as strategic deterrence, nationalism, terrorism, cyber security, climate change, the open society and religionConsiders political realism in non-Western contexts, including Israel, Russia and ChinaIncludes political realism’s ground-up growth and interpretation outwith Western contextsContributorsUriel Abulof, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.Christopher Adair-Toteff, Zeppelin University, Germany.Erica Benner, Yale University, USA.John Bew, King’s College London, UK.Todd Breyfogle, Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., USA.Joshua Cherniss, Georgetown University, USA.Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.Lindsay P. Cohn, U.S. Naval War College, USA.Kody W. Cooper, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani, Durham University, UK.Markus Fischer, California State University, Fullerton, USA.Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.Stuart Gray, Politics at Washington and Lee University, USA.Robert Howse, New York University School of Law, USA.David Martin Jones, University of Queensland, Australia and King’s College London, UK.Menno R. Kamminga, University of Groningen, Netherlands.Peter Iver Kaufman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and University of Richmond, USA.David Kerr, Durham University, UK.Paul Kirkland, Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA.Douglas B. Klusmeyer, American University, Washington, DC, USA.Konstantinos Kostagiannis, University of Maastricht, Netherlands.Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas at Austin, USA.Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA.David Mayers, Boston University, USA.Kenneth B. McIntyre, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, USA.Neville Morley, University of Exeter, UK.John Mueller, Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Ohio State University, USA.Masashi Okuyama, International Geopolitica

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

Part I: Political Realism and the Political

1. Political Realism and Human Nature

2. Political Realism and the Western Mind

3. Political Realism and Strategic Theory

4. Political Realism and Realpolitik

5. Political Realism and Ideology

6. Political Realism and Civil–Military Relations

7. Political Realism and the English School

8. Political Realism and Global Reform

Part II: Political Realism and Political Thinking

9. Thucydides

10. Kauṭilya

11. Livy

12. Augustine of Hippo

13. Niccolò Machiavelli

14. William Shakespeare

15. Thomas Hobbes

16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

17. Friedrich Nietzsche

18. Max Weber

19. Walter Lippmann

20. Reinhold Niebuhr

21. E. H. Carr

22. Leo Strauss

23. Herbert Butterfield

24. Hans Kelsen

25. Raymond Aron

26. George F. Kennan

27. Hans J. Morgenthau

28. Hannah Arendt

29. John H. Herz

30. Isaiah Berlin

Part III: Political Realism and Foreign Policy

31. Political Realism and Threat Perception

32. Political Realism and Russia

33. Political Realism and China

34. Political Realism and Iran

35. Political Realism and Israel

36. Political Realism and India

37. Political Realism and Japan

38. Political Realism and Regionalism

39. Political Realism and Nationalism

40. Political Realism and Religion

41. Political Realism and the Environment

42. Political Realism and the Internet

43. Political Realism and Terrorism

44. Political Realism and the Open Society

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78785-772-7

1-4744-2330-2

1-4744-2329-9

OCLC:

1312727003