Realism and World Politics

CONTENTS

List of contributors xi
Foreword: Kenneth Waltz xv
Preface xvii

1 Realism redux: contexts, concepts, contests 1

Ken Booth

PART I
Political ideas in Waltzian realism 15

2 Anarchy and violence interdependence 17

Daniel Deudney

3 Bringing realism to American liberalism:Waltz and the process

of Cold War adjustment 35

Michael Foley

4 The politics of theory:Waltz, realism and democracy 50

Michael C.Williams

PART II
Challenges to structural realist theory 65

5 Waltz’s theory of theory: the pictorial challenge to mainstream IR 67

Ole Wæver