Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold

by Guzzini,Stefano

• ISBN13: 9780415144025
• ISBN10: 0415144027
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-05-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides an introductory survey of the evolution of Realism in international theory. It is the first book to examine the history of Realism in terms of its own evolution as a paradigm, rather than providing a survey of some of the key Realist thinkers, and the first book to include a detailed consideration of the IPE dimension of Realism. Guzzini argues that any account of the historical evolution of theory must be concerned with both internal history--the intra-theoretical developments, refinements and rebuttals of existing approaches that have shaped IR and IPE, and with external history--including both the intellectual environment within which theories are constructed and the external history of the subject matter including real developments in international affairs. It is the exchange between these two histories that forms the subject of this book.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Assumptions of a historical sociology of realism	p. 1
Classical realism: Carr, Morgenthau and the crisis of collective security	p. 15
The evolution of realist core concepts during the second debate	p. 32
Realism and the US policy of containment	p. 49
The turning point of the Cuban missile crisis: crisis management and the expanding research agenda	p. 64
Epilogue: Soviet theories of International Relations	p. 81
The policy of detente: Kissinger and the limits of concert diplomacy	p. 95
International Relations in disarray: the inter-paradigm debate	p. 108
Systemic neorealism: Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics	p. 125
International Political Economy as an attempt to update realism: the end of the Bretton-Woods system and hegemonic stability theory	p. 142
International Political Economy at the convergence of realism and structuralism	p. 161
Realism gets lost: the epistemological turn of the 1980s and 1990s	p. 191
Realism at a crossroads	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 253
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