Realism and World Politics

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REALISM AND WORLD POLITICS This book contributes to the rethinking of realism through multiple analyses of the keys works of Ken ...

‘In this fine volume, Ken Booth has brought together leading theorists of international politics to assess the work of Kenneth W ...

REALISM AND WORLD POLITICS Edited by Ken Booth ...

First published 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

This book is dedicated to KENNETH N. WALTZ Our indispensable* theorist indispensable adj. 1. Incapable of being dispensed with; ...

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CONTENTS List of contributors xi Foreword: Kenneth Waltz xv Preface xvii 1 Realism redux: contexts, concepts, contests 1 Ken Boo ...

6 Structure? What structure? 89 Nicholas Onuf 7 ‘Big and important things’ in IR: structural realism and the neglect of changes ...

PART V Continuity and change in the international and in the world 269 16 How hierarchical can international society be? 271 Ian ...

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CONTRIBUTORS Cornelia Beyeris Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hull. She is the author of Violent Globalisms: Conflict ...

Neta C. Crawfordis Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She is the author or editor of three books, including Ar ...

University. His latest book is International Legal Theory: Essays and Engagements 1966–2007 (2008). Georg Sørensenis Professor o ...

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FOREWORD Kenneth N. Waltz Since the Treaty of Westphalia, states have been the bedrock on which the inter- national political sy ...

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PREFACE Ken Booth This volume is one outcome of a project to celebrate two notable milestones in the academic study of Internati ...

Aberystwyth University, and especially successive Heads of Department, Colin McInnes and Michael Foley. Financial support was al ...

1 REALISM REDUX Contexts, concepts, contests Ken Booth Three interconnected themes run through this book, though the individual ...