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Realism: A Distinctively 20th Century European Tradition

Realism: A Distinctively 20th Century European Tradition

Reichwein, Alexander
Rösch, Felix

Hardcover

Series: Trends in European IR Theory

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 3030584542
ISBN13: 9783030584542
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Dec 27 2020
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book examines how IR's European realist tradition evolved in Europe and, due to emigration, in the United States in the 20th century. It includes an introduction and eight chapters, focusing on historical classical and contemporary structural branches of realist IR theorizing in historical and political contexts in which realist thinking did develop. It reminds us of realist key figures, such as Edward H. Carr, John H. Herz or Hans J. Morgenthau, but also of almost forgotten realists such as Raymond Aron, Stanley Hoffmann or Nicholas J. Spykman. Given IR mainstream textbooks introducing realism as a conservative American Cold War theory, this selection aims to reintroduce realism as a primarily and distinctively European, liberal, normative and critical tradition. A tradition that is almost always misunderstood as a guide for practitioners how to maximize or at least preserve power in the name of the national interest no matter the cost, but thatis in fact an argument against reckless and crude power politics, ideology and totalitarianism. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners and students interested in the realist tradition in IR.

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