Realism and world politics.
This book contributes to the rethinking of realism through multiple analyses of the keys works of Kenneth Waltz, arguing that a sophisticated appreciation of realism is needed to truly understand world politics and International Relations.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Realism redux: contexts, concepts, contests
- 2. Anarchy and violence interdependence
- 3. Bringing realism to American liberalism: Waltz and the process of a Cold War adjustment
- 4. The politics of theory: Waltz, realism, and democracy
- 5. Waltz's theory of theory: the pictorial challenge to mainstream IR
- 6. Structure? What structure?
- 7. 'Big and important things' in IR: structural realism and the neglect of changes in statehood.
- 8. Reckless states and realism
- 9. Structural realism, classical realism and human nature
- 10. Human nature and world politics: rethinking 'man'
- 11. Woman, the state, and war
- 12. Understanding man, the state, and war
- 13. Lost in transition: a critical analysis of power transition theory
- 14. Hegemony, equilibrium and counterpower: a synthetic approach
- 15. Beyond Waltz's nuclear world: more trust may be better
- 16. How hierarchical can international society be?
- 17. Waltz and world history: the paradox of parsimony
- 18. Human interconnectedness
- 19. International politics: the inconvenient truth.