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Squandered opportunity
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ISBN: 0804795088 9780804795081 9780804793056 0804793050 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, California

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The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however, of fulfilling its long-standing ambition of becoming the dominant power in the Persian Gulf and a leading regional power in the broader Middle East.In Squandered Opportunity, Thomas Juneau develops a variant of neoclassical realism, a theory of foreign policy mistakes, to explore the causes an


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Political realism in apocalyptic times
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ISBN: 1108592996 1316588300 1108636365 1107152399 1316606546 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times.


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Realism and international relations : a graphic turn toward scientific progress
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ISBN: 0197645054 0197645046 0197645038 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Translating the vast amount of information in the field of international relations into knowledge requires a greater emphasis on communication beyond the use of text. Given the challenges posed by existing and intensifying information overload, Patrick James calls for a new vision of progress with a solid foundation in the philosophy of inquiry and through graphic representation of cause and effect. In his new book Realism and International Relations, Patrick James gives us the most comprehensive reassessment of realism since the classic works of Vasquez. When translated into a graphic format that facilitates comparative analysis, realist theories collectively have much to contribute to scientific progress.


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Niebuhrian international relations : the ethics of foreign policymaking
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ISBN: 0197500471 0197500455 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Reinhold Niebuhr's ideas about ethics, social justice, and foreign policy have been hugely influential for American political thought, and this has been true across the political spectrum, from progressive social justice activists to neo-conservatives. This book distills Niebuhr's disparate and heretofore difficult-to-access work on international relations into one concise and accessible volume. Drawing from the well-springs of Niebuhr's Christian social thought, the volume explores the depths of Niebuhr's views on human nature, race, collective life, U.S. foreign policy, Just War Theory, Cold War era containment, globalization, and the U.N. It then applies his approach to contemporary foreign policy issues such as the 2003 Iraq War, the Responsibility to Protect, and the rise of China.


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The art of jihad : realism in Islamic political thought
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ISBN: 1438476388 9781438476384 9781438476377 143847637X Year: 2019 Publisher: Albany, New York : Sunny Press,

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Now all but forgotten, there exists within medieval Islamic political thought a coherent "realist" tradition analogous to its Western counterpart. In The Art of Jihad: Realism in Islamic Political Thought author Malik Mufti begins by analyzing contemporary debates on jihad designed to highlight the lacuna occupied by realism in other cultures, and explicates the features of medieval Islamic realism; those it shares with realism everywhere--a focus on power, for example, or the ubiquity of human conflict--but also those features that are distinctive: its insistence on the political centrality of religion, its rejection of scientific certainty, its valorization of hierarchy, and its adherence to empire as the optimal ethico-political framework. These features are fleshed out through the writings of medieval political thinkers such as Ibn al-Muqaffa`, al-Jahiz, and the anonymous author of a seminal military manual, as well as political philosophers such as Ibn Rushd and Ibn Khaldun. Finally, Mufti explores the prospects for a revival of Islamic realism in the context of the political and intellectual upheavals currently besetting the Middle East.


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The social construction of state power : applying realist constructivism
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ISBN: 1529209862 1529209846 1529209854 1529209838 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,

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Realism and constructivism are often viewed as competing paradigms for understanding international relations, though scholars are increasingly arguing that the two are compatible. Edited by one of the leading proponents of realist constructivism, this volume shows what realist constructivism looks like in practice by innovatively combining exposition and critiques of the realist constructivist approach with a series of international case studies. Each chapter addresses a key empirical question in international relations and provides important guidance for how to combine both approaches effectively in research. Addressing future directions and possibilities for realist constructivism in international relations, this book makes a significant contribution to the theorizing of global politics.


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The Atlantic realists : empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States
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ISBN: 9781503603127 1503603121 9781503629967 1503629961 9781503629974 Year: 2022 Publisher: Stanford, California Stanford University Press

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"Historians of US foreign policy have noted the prominence of self-proclaimed "realists" among them: George Kennan, Kenneth Waltz, and Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But histories of what today we call realism in international relations theory have rarely sought to trace the origins of these schools of thought to the twentieth-century German political contexts that are primarily responsible for their emergence. Similarly, historians of German imperialism from the late nineteenth century through the Holocaust have often neglected the United States as a source of the ideas and practices of great power politics. This book offers a genealogy of realism in the work of lawyers, political scientists, international relations theorists, and diplomats from 1890 to 1960, exploring the transatlantic connections between the modern American and German empires. Reconstructing this transnational circulation of ideas between the US and Germany reveals the concordances between the American and German imperial experiences and their intellectual imaginaries. Matthew Specter discusses key figures in the evolution of the realist tradition, including the Nazi German jurist Carl Schmitt, American Hans Morgenthau, the émigré founder of international relations theory in the 1940s, and German diplomat Wilhelm Grewe. Specter challenges us to excavate the realist tradition for the racial and spatial dimensions of an Atlantic history that encompasses the Monroe Doctrine and the Spanish-American War, the Treaty of Versailles and the Holocaust, the division of Germany and the creation of global American empire"--


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Realism and the Liberal Tradition : The International Relations Theory of Whittle Johnston
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ISBN: 1137577630 1137577649 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book presents a posthumous collection of previously uncollected works of political theory written by Whittle Johnston. Johnston believed that both the liberal tradition of political thought and the realist tradition of international thought had contributed much to humanity’s store of political wisdom, but that each had limitations that could most easily be recognized by its encounter with the other. His method of accomplishing this task was to examine the liberal conception of political life in general and international political life in particular and then to explore the realist critique of the liberal view, particularly as it was expressed by three great twentieth-century realist thinkers, all of whom were, in their various ways, skeptical of liberal assumptions: Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and E. H. Carr. In doing so, Johnston reveals the power of the realist outlook, but also the areas in which it remains insufficient, and insufficient particularly where it underestimates the complexity and prudence that liberalism is capable of displaying. There have been studies of both liberalism and realism, but no other work has put them into conversation with each other in the way that this book does.

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International relations. --- Political science. --- Political realism. --- Liberalism. --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Neo-realism (International relations) --- Neoclassical realism (International relations) --- Realism, Political --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- Social sciences --- State, The --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Liberty --- Political science --- International relations --- Balance of power --- Political theory. --- International organization. --- Philosophy, modern. --- Globalization. --- Political Theory. --- International Organization. --- Political Philosophy. --- Modern Philosophy. --- Foreign Policy. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Anti-globalization movement --- Modern philosophy --- Political philosophy --- Federation, International --- International administration --- International federation --- Organization, International --- World federation --- World government --- World organization --- Congresses and conventions --- Peace --- International agencies --- International cooperation --- Security, International --- Philosophy. --- Political philosophy. --- Modern philosophy.


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Reasoning of state : realists, romantics and rationality in international relations
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ISBN: 9781108612937 9781108427425 9781108446181 1108427421 1108446183 1108571506 1108612938 1108688381 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press

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"Scholars and citizens tend to assume that rationality guides the decision making of our leaders. Brian Rathbun suggests, however, that if we understand rationality to be a cognitive style premised on a commitment to objectivity and active deliberation, rational leaders are, in fact, the exception - not the norm. Using a unique combination of methods, including laboratory bargaining experiments, archival-based case studies, quantitative textual analysis, and high-level interviews, Rathbun questions some of our basic assumptions about rationality and leadership, with profound implications for the field of international relations. Case studies of Bismarck and Richelieu show that the rationality of realists makes them rare. An examination of Churchill and Reagan, romantics in international politics who sought to overcome obstacles in their path through force of will and personal agency, show what less rationality looks like in foreign policy making"--

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Political realism --- International relations --- #SBIB:327.1H10 --- Neo-realism (International relations) --- Neoclassical realism (International relations) --- Realism, Political --- Balance of power --- Decision making --- Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën --- Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, --- Bismarck, Otto, --- Churchill, Winston, --- Reagan, Ronald. --- Reagan, Ronald --- Reagan, Ronald W. --- Reagan, Ronald Wilson, --- Rīkǣn, Rōnan, --- Reĭgan, R., --- Reagan, Ronnie, --- Reĭgan, Ronalʹd Uilson, --- Reĭgŭn, Ronald, --- Rījān, Rūnāld, --- Rayjān, Rūnāld, --- Reigŏn, Ronaldŭ, --- Lieh-ken, --- Lei-ken, --- Churchill, Winston --- Spencer-Churchill, Winston Leonard --- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --- Churchill, Winston Spencer --- Churchill, Winston S. --- Bismarck-Schönhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold von, --- Bismark, Otto, --- Bismark-Shengauzen, Otto Eduard Leopol'd fon, --- Pi-ssu-mai, --- Von Bismarck, Otto, --- ביסמארק, אוטו --- De Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, --- Du Plesis, --- Du Plessis, Armand Jean, --- Plessis, Armand Jean du, --- Richelieu, --- Richlieu, --- Rishelʹe, --- France --- Prussia (Germany) --- Great Britain --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Cherchillʹ, Vinston, --- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, --- Chʻiu-chi-êrh, --- Warden, --- Chŭrchil, Uinstŭn, --- Ts'urts'il, Ṿinsṭon, --- Cherchillʹ, Uinston, --- צ׳רצ׳יל, וינסטון --- צ'רציל, וינסטון ס., --- צ'רצ'יל, וינסטון, --- تشرشل، ونستون، --- Čʻurčʻili, Uinston, --- Spencer Churchill, Winston, --- Reagan, Ronald Wilson --- Rīkǣn, Rōnan --- Reĭgan, R. --- Reagan, Ronnie --- Reĭgan, Ronalʹd Uilson --- Reĭgŭn, Ronald --- Rījān, Rūnāld --- Rayjān, Rūnāld --- Reigŏn, Ronaldŭ --- Lieh-ken --- Lei-ken --- Political realism. --- Decision making.


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After the enlightenment
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ISBN: 9781107169739 9781316755181 9781316621110 1316621111 1107169739 1316766950 1316766233 1316767671 1316755185 1316768392 1316770559 1316769836 1316761916 9781316770559 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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After the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an eternal wisdom inherited from Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes, but a twentieth-century phenomenon rooted in the interwar years, the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and the transfer of ideas between Continental Europe and the United States. The book provides the first intellectual history of the rise of realism in America, as it informed policy and academic circles after 1945. It breaks through the narrow confines of the discipline of international relations and resituates realism within the crisis of American liberalism. Realism provided a new framework for foreign policy thinking and transformed the nature of American democracy. This book sheds light on the emergence of 'rational choice' as a new paradigm for political decision-making and speaks to the current revival in realism in international affairs.

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Political realism --- International relations --- Political science --- Philosophy --- Political realism. --- Philosophy. --- Political philosophy --- Neo-realism (International relations) --- Neoclassical realism (International relations) --- Realism, Political --- Balance of power --- political science --- international relations --- case study --- United States --- die Vereinigte Staaten --- Združene države --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες --- l-Istati Uniti --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Stati Uniti --- Shtetet e Bashkuara --- Estados Unidos --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Spojené státy --- États-Unis --- Egyesült Államok --- Statele Unite --- Amerikas Savienotās Valstis --- Förenta staterna --- Verenigde Staten --- Сједињене Америчке Државе --- Jungtinės Valstijos --- Yhdysvallat --- Съединени щати --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Na Stáit Aontaithe --- Spojené štáty --- Соединети Американски Држави --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- VS --- САД --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- USA --- EE.UU. --- JAV --- Amerikas förenta stater --- l-Istati Uniti tal-Amerika --- los Estados Unidos de América --- ΗΠΑ --- Shtetet e Bashkuara të Amerikës --- SAD --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Соединетите Држави --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Statele Unite ale Americii --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- SHBA --- United States of America --- Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής --- EUA --- ASV --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Združene države Amerike --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki --- САЩ --- Съединени американски щати --- SUA --- Yhdysvallat, USA --- Spojené státy americké --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos --- Sjedinjene Države --- Estados Unidos da América --- De Forenede Stater --- Spojené státy severoamerické --- Amerikan yhdysvallat --- Spojené štáty americké --- die Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- US --- esettanulmány --- rast studimor --- περιπτωσιολογική μελέτη --- prípadová štúdia --- casestudy --- fallstudie --- cás-staidéar --- atvejo tyrimas --- studiu de caz --- анализа случаја --- estudo de casos --- gadījumu izpēte --- студија на случај --- Fallstudie --- estudio de casos --- juhtumiuuring --- tapaustutkimus --- étude de cas --- případová studie --- studia przypadków --- изучаване на процеса --- analiza slučaja --- študija primera --- studio di fattispecie --- studju tal-każijiet --- estudio de caso práctico --- estudio de casos típicos --- gadījumu studijas --- case-study --- análisis de casos típicos --- problemos nagrinėjimas --- анализа на случај --- детално проучување на случај --- análisis de ejemplos concretos --- studija slučaja --- estudio de casos concretos --- estudio de ejemplos prácticos --- proučavanje slučaja --- детално следење на случај --- mednarodni odnosi --- rahvusvahelised suhted --- tarptautiniai santykiai --- internationella förbindelser --- mezinárodní vztahy --- nemzetközi kapcsolatok --- меѓународни односи --- marrëdhënie ndërkombëtare --- kansainväliset suhteet --- caidreamh idirnáisiúnta --- relazioni internazionali --- међународни односи --- relazzjonijiet internazzjonali --- международни отношения --- relación internacional --- relation internationale --- starptautiskās attiecības --- internationale relationer --- internationale betrekking --- internationale Beziehungen --- διεθνείς σχέσεις --- stosunki międzynarodowe --- medzinárodné vzťahy --- relações internacionais --- relații internaționale --- međunarodni odnosi --- internacionální styky --- államközi kapcsolatok --- internationale forbindelser --- starptautiski sakari --- mezinárodní styky --- zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen --- internationale anliggender --- politikas zinātne --- valtio-oppi --- ciencia política --- политички науки --- politične vede --- scienze politiche --- nauki polityczne --- politológia --- politisk videnskab --- science politique --- ciência política --- politieke wetenschap --- политичке науке --- političke znanosti --- politische Wissenschaft --- politologija --- eolaíocht pholaitiúil --- politologie --- shkenca politike --- politoloogia --- πολιτική επιστήμη --- știință politică --- политическа наука --- xjenza politika --- statsvetenskap --- политичка теорија --- Politologie --- statskundskab --- politikatudomány --- politické vědy --- státověda --- Politikwissenschaft --- ştiinţe politice --- politicologie --- statskunskap --- teorie politiky --- politoloģija --- политикологија --- politikos mokslas --- правно-политички науки --- International relations - Philosophy --- Political science - Philosophy

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