Format:
1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:
9780511152276
Series Statement:
Themes in International Relations
Content:
An accessible and lively student survey of the dominant theory in International Relations.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Realism and international relations -- Outline of the book -- Audience and orientation -- 1 The realist tradition -- A definition -- A typology -- Six realist paradigms -- Thomas Hobbes -- Hans Morgenthau -- Kenneth Waltz -- The Prisoners' Dilemma -- Thucydides' Athenian envoys -- Machiavelli -- Realism and the study of international relations -- The first generation -- Realism reconsidered -- The neorealist revival -- Discussion questions -- Suggestions for further reading -- Hobbes -- Morgenthau -- Waltz -- Prisoners' Dilemma -- Thucydides -- Machiavelli -- Other major realists -- 2 Human nature and state motivation -- Fear, honor, and interest -- Human nature and biological realism -- The national interest defined in terms of power -- The will to power -- Human nature and power politics -- Anarchy, power, and international politics -- The failure of the structural dodge -- The structural dodge -- Motives matter -- Survival -- Multiple motivational assumptions -- Realism as grand theory -- Absolute versus relative gains -- Power, balancing, and maximizing -- Competition, diffidence, and indeterminate predictions -- Security, offense, and defense -- Rationality -- Honor, glory, and heroic realism -- The pursuit of glory -- Heroic versus material realism -- The social construction of state interests -- Human nature and state motivation: variables, not constants -- The character and contribution of realism -- Multiple realist models -- Realism and its "competitors" -- Discussion questions -- Suggestions for further reading -- 3 Anarchy, hierarchy, and order -- Anarchy, chaos, and order -- Waltz on structure -- The nature of structural theory -- Defining structure -- Dichotomy or continuum? -- Anarchy and hierarchy -- Mixed political orders.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521592291
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521592291
Additional Edition:
Print version Realism and International Relations
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=202341
