Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism

A critical exploration of the 2000-year history of Realist thought and its place in the modern world In this unprecedented collection of specially commissioned essays, a diverse and international group of scholars address the question of 'Political Realism in our Times'. The results are provocative, stimulating and comprehensive. The essays may be read individually, or together. What the reader will take away, in either case, is an urgent sense that the situation has changed, and that political thinking must catch up. This substantial reference work therefore offers a detailed guide to Political Realism in the context of its history, scientific methodology and normative role in international affairs. It also considers its ground-up growth and interpretation in key non-Western geopolitical contexts, as well as seeking direct and creative engagement with such pressing issues as climate change, terrorism, global reform, nationalism and the future of the open society. With its clear organisation, authoritative introduction, bibliographies and index, The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism is an indispensable resource and an inspiration for new and experienced researchers. Robert Schuett lives in Vienna and is the author of Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations (2010). Miles Hollingworth lives in Northern Italy and is the author of several books, including Saint Augustine of Hippo (2013) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (2018). Cover image: by Bahman Farzad. Used with the kind permission of Parastoo Farzad-Lykins Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2328-1 Barcode

List of contents

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

Part I: Political Realism and the Political

1. Political Realism and Human Nature
Erica Benner

2. Political Realism and the Western Mind
Zhao Tingyang

3. Political Realism and Strategic Theory
Samir Puri

4. Political Realism and Realpolitik
John Bew

5. Political Realism and Ideology
David Martin Jones

6. Political Realism and Civil-military Relations
Lindsay P. Cohn

7. Political Realism and the English School
Jodok Troy

8. Political Realism and Global Reform
William Scheuerman

Part II: Political Realism and Political Thinking

9. Thucydides
Neville Morley

10. Kautilya
Stuart Gray

11. Livy
Ayelet Haimson-Lushkov

12. Augustine of Hippo
Miles Hollingworth

13. Niccolò Machiavelli
Markus Fischer

14. William Shakespeare
Tim Spiekerman

15. Thomas Hobbes
Kody W. Cooper

16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Grace G. Roosevelt

17. Friedrich Nietzsche
Paul E. Kirkland

18. Max Weber
Christopher Adair-Toteff

19. Walter Lippmann
Alan Chong

20. Reinhold Niebuhr
Menno R. Kamminga

21. E. H. Carr
Konstantinos Kostagiannis

22. Leo Strauss
Robert Howse

23. Herbert Butterfield
Kenneth B. McIntyre

24. Hans Kelsen
Robert Schuett

25. Raymond Aron
Christopher Adair-Toteff

26. George F. Kennan
David A. Mayers

27. Hans J. Morgenthau
Felix Roesch

28. Hannah Arendt
Douglas Klusmeyer

29. John H. Herz
Peter M. R. Stirk

30. Isaiah Berlin
Joshua Cherniss

Part III: Political Realism and Foreign Policy

31. Political Realism and Threat Perception
John Mueller

32. Political Realism and Russia
David Kerr

33. Political Realism and China
Derek Yuen

34. Political Realism and Iran
Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani

35. Political Realism and Israel
Uriel Abulof

36. Political Realism and India
Rashed Uz Zaman

37. Political Realism and Japan
Masa Okuyama

38. Political Realism and Regionalism
David Martin Jones

39. Political Realism and Nationalism
Peter Iver Kaufman

40. Political Realism and Religion
Cecelia Lynch

41. Political Realism and the Environment
Tom Switzer

42. Political Realism and the Internet
Richard Forno

43. Political Realism and Terrorism
Alex S. Wilner

44. Political Realism and the Open Society
Todd Breyfogle

Index

About the author

Robert Schuett is an independent researcher based in Vienna. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, UK. His research interests are primarily based in political philosophy and international theory. He is the author of Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations (Palgrave, 2010) and the editor of The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

Miles Hollingworth is an independent scholar, currently living in Northern Italy. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Oxford University Press, 2018), Inventing Socrates (Bloomsbury, 2015), Saint Augustine of Hippo (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Pilgrim City (Bloomsbury, 2010). He is the founder and series editor of Reading Augustine (Bloomsbury).

Summary

This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Schuett, Robert Hollingworth Schuett, SCHUETT ROBERT
• Assisted by: Miles Hollingworth (Editor), Robert Schuett (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781474423281
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-2328-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education