Realism Reader 1st edition by Colin Elman, Michael Jensen ISBN 0415773571 978-0415773577

Realism Reader 1st edition by Colin Elman, Michael Jensen ISBN 0415773571 978-0415773577

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ISBN 10: 0415773571
ISBN 13: 978-0415773577
Author: Colin Elman, Michael Jensen

The Realism Reader provides broad coverage of a centrally important tradition in the study of foreign policy and international politics. After some years in the doldrums, political realism is again in contention as a leading tradition in the international relations sub-field.

Divided into three main sections, the book covers seven different and distinctive approaches within the realist tradition: classical realism, balance of power theory, neorealism, defensive structural realism, offensive structural realism, rise and fall realism, and neoclassical realism. The middle section of the volume covers realism’s engagement with critiques levelled by liberalism, institutionalism, and constructivism and the English School. The final section of the book provides materials on realism’s engagement with some contemporary issues in international politics, with collections on United States (U.S.) hegemony, European cooperation, and whether future threats will arise from non-state actors or the rise of competing great powers.

The book offers a logically coherent and manageable framework for organizing the realist canon, and provides exemplary literature in each of the traditions and dialogues which are included in the volume. Offering substantial commentary and analysis and including enhanced pedagogy to facilitate student learning, The Realism Reader will provide a 'one-stop-shop' for undergraduates and masters students taking a course in contemporary international relations theory, with a particular focus on realism.

Realism Reader 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

Section One: Realist research programs

2. Classical realism: The twentieth century

The beginnings of a science

The realist critique

The moral blindness of scientific man

A realist theory of international politics

Idealist internationalism and the security dilemma

The pole of power and the pole of indifference

3. Balance of power theory

The balance of power: prescription, concept, or propaganda?

Aims

Feedback

Balancing on land and at sea: do states ally against the leading global power?

4. Neorealism

Political structures

Anarchic orders and balances of power

Realist thought and neorealist theory

The origins of war in neorealist theory

5. Defensive structural realism

Cooperation under the security dilemma

Alliance formation and the balance of world power

Introduction

Realists as optimists: cooperation as self-help

Breaking out of the security dilemma: realism, reassurance, and the problem of uncertainty

6. Offensive structural realism

Anarchy and the struggle for power

Mearsheimer’s world: offensive realism and the struggle for security

The “poster child for offensive realism”: America as a global hegemon

7. Rise and fall realism

Power transition

The power transition research program: A Lakatosian analysis

The nature of international political change

Hegemonic war and international change

Declining power and the preventive motivation for war

Neorealism and the myth of bipolar stability: toward a new dynamic realist theory of major war

8. Neoclassical realism

The necessary and natural evolution of structural realism

Introduction: neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy

Chain gangs and passed bucks: predicting alliance patterns in multipolarity

Unanswered threats: a neoclassical realist theory of underbalancing

Neoclassical realism and the national interest: presidents, domestic politics, and major military in

Section Two: Critiques and responses

9. Engaging liberal critiques

Taking preferences seriously: a liberal theory of international politics

Is anybody not an (international relations) liberal?

How liberalism produces democratic peace

Kant or cant: the myth of the democratic peace

10. Engaging the institutionalist critiques

Neoliberalism, neorealism, and world politics

Institutional theory as a research program

Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism

The false promise of international institutions

11. Engaging the constructivist and English School critiques

Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics

Culture clash: assessing the importance of ideas in security studies

The English School vs. American realism: a meeting of minds or divided by a common language?

A realist critique of the English School

Section Three: Realist theories and contemporary international politics

12. Realism, American hegemony, and soft balancing

The stability of a unipolar world

The unipolar illusion revisited: the coming end of the United States’ unipolar moment

Soft balancing against the United States

Waiting for balancing: why the world is not pushing back

13. Realism and European cooperation

The future of the American pacifier

European Union security and defense policy: response to unipolarity?

Still not pushing back: why the European Union is not balancing the United States

14. Realism, non-state actors, and the rise of China

Structural realism in a more complex world

The security dilemma and ethnic conflict

China’s unpeaceful rise

The tragedy of offensive realism: classical realism and the rise of China

15. Is realism heading in the right direction?

The realist paradigm and degenerative versus progressive research programs: an appraisal of neotradi

Evaluating theories

The progressive power of realism

Is anybody still a realist?

Correspondence: brother, can you spare a paradigm?

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