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Realism in International Relations: The Making of a Disarrayed Tradition

Realism in International Relations: The Making of a Disarrayed Tradition

Tabak, Mehmet

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 3031832264
ISBN13: 9783031832260
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 6 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

According to a pervasive view in the discipline of International Relations (IR): a) realism is a historical tradition, stretching all the way back to Thucydides; b) despite the important theoretical differences among themselves, realists uphold the same set of core beliefs about the workings of international politics. Together, these two claims amount to the perspective that realism is a sui generis scholarly tradition with ancient origins. The author critiques both aspects of this view by illustrating that realism is both a relatively recent tradition and a disarrayed one. He shows that the realist tradition entails conscious membership and participation in a common realist discourse that has produced fundamentally different, even opposing, methodologies and theories about the same or related phenomena in international politics. In illustrating this argument, the author critically explores a variety of seminal statements of, and debates about, realism. This exploration reveals that the conceptual and theoretical shortcomings of the major statements of realism significantly explain why realism evolved as a disarrayed tradition. Overall, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of realism in particular and IR in general. The comprehensive and critical analysis of many facets of realism this book offers also yields many didactic elements.

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