Overview
- Offers a concise veduta of the European 20th century realist tradition in IR, and its key figures in political and historical contexts
- Provides a critical appraisal of the trajectories of the European realist tradition and its different approaches, and how they did evolve
- Extends an invitation to reconstruct and contextualize the realist tradition to disclose its distinctively European origins and roots, and to strengthen its European identity
Part of the book series: Trends in European IR Theory (TEIRT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Realism
- Twenty Years‘ Crisis
- Émigré scholarship
- International Relations Theory
- Stanley Hoffmann
- European Realist Tradition
- Weimar
- EH Carr
- Carl Schmitt
- Classical Realism
- Hans J. Morgenthau
- Hannah Arendt
- Raymond Aron
- John Herz
- Social Theory
- International Security
- Nicholas Spykman
- Christian Realism
- Structural Realism
- Friedrich Meinecke
About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Reichwein is Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
Felix Rösch is Associate Professor in International Relations at Coventry University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Realism
Book Subtitle: A Distinctively 20th Century European Tradition
Editors: Alexander Reichwein, Felix Rösch
Series Title: Trends in European IR Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58455-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58454-2Published: 27 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58457-3Published: 28 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58455-9Published: 26 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5273
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5281
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 154
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Political Theory, European Politics