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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