ABSTRACT

Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the Sophists and Thucydides to the modern era.

part I|100 pages

Reconstructing Realism

chapter |98 pages

Reconstructing Political Realism

The Long March to Scientific Theory

part II|177 pages

Classical Realism

chapter |25 pages

Thucydidean Realism:

Between Athens and Melos

chapter |54 pages

The Idea of Power Politics:

The Sophistic Foundations of Realism

part III|106 pages

Modern Realism

chapter |31 pages

Totalitarianism and Realism:

Hans Morgenthau's German Years

chapter |40 pages

E. H. Carr, Winston Churchill, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Us:

The Case for Principled, Prudential, Democratic Realism

chapter |33 pages

Morality, Realism, and Foreign Affairs:

A Normative Realist Approach