REALISM AND WORLD POLITICS BOOTH K. (EDITOR) Księgarnia

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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.

Bringing together a theoretically varied group of leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, this book is an outstanding appreciation of the work of realism’s most important theorist since the Second World War, and the persistent themes thrown up by his work over a half-century. The contributors do not engage with Waltz’s work as slavish disciples, but rather as positive critics, recognising its decisive significance in International Relations, while using the process of critical engagement to search for new or renewed understandings of unfolding global situations and new insights into long-standing problems of theory-building.

The book will be of great interest to students of IR, foreign policy, security studies and politics.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Realism Redux: Contexts, Concepts, Contests Ken Booth

Part 1: Political Ideas in Waltzian Realism

2. Anarchy and Violence Interdependence Daniel Deudney

3. Bringing Realism to American Liberalism: Kenneth Waltz and the Process of Cold War Adjustment Michael Foley

4. Waltz, Realism and Democracy Michael C. Williams

Part 2: Challenges to Structural Realist Theory

5. Waltz’s Theory of Theory Ole Waver

6. Structure? What Structure? Nicholas Onuf

7. ‘Big and important things in IR’: Structural Realism and the Neglect of Changes in Statehood Georg Sorensen

8. Reckless States and Realism John Mearsheimer

Part 3: Realist Theories and Human Nature

9. Structural Realism, Classical Realism and Human Nature Chris Brown

10. Human Nature and World Politics: Rethinking ‘Man’ Neta Crawford

11. Women, the State, and War Jean Bethke Elshtain

Part 4: War and Security, Causes and Consequences

12. Understanding Man, the State and War Hidemi Suganami

13. Lost in Transition: a Critical Analysis of Power Transition Theory Richard Ned Lebow and Benjamin Valentino

14. Hegemony, Equilibrium and Counterpower: a Synthetic Approach Cornelia Beyer

15. Nuclear Weapons in Waltz’s World: More Trust may be Better Nicholas J. Wheeler

Part 5: Continuity and Change in the International and in the World

16. How Hierarchical can International Society be? Ian Clark

17. Waltz and World History: the Paradox of Parsimony Barry Buzan and Richard Little

18. Human Interconnectedness Andrew Linklater

Part 6: Conclusion 1

9. International Politics: the Inconvenient Truth Ken Booth

368 pages, Paperback

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