Unwritten Future (eBook)

Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics

Jonathan Kirshner (Autor)

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2022
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23312-3 (ISBN)

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An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism's would-be successors and shows how this older, more nuanced and sophisticated method for studying world politics better explains the formative events of the past. Kirshner also reveals how this approach is ideally equipped to comprehend the vital questions of the presentsuch as the implications of China's rise, the ways that social and economic change alter the balance of power and the nature of international conflict, and the consequences of the end of the US-led postwar order for the future of world politics.Laying out realism's core principles, Kirshner discusses the contributions of the perspective's key thinkers, including Thucydides, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron, among others. He illustrates how a classical realist approach gives new insights into major upheavals of the twentieth century, such as Britain's appeasement of Nazi Germany and America's ruinous involvement in Vietnam. Kirshner also addresses realism's limits and explores contemporary issues, including the ascent of great power challengers, the political implications of globalization, and the diffusion of power in modern world politics.A reexamination of the realist tradition, with a renewed emphasis on the crucial roles played by uncertainty, contingency, and contestation, An Unwritten Future demonstrates how a once-popular school of thought provides invaluable insights into pressing real-world problems.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Alertness • Allegory (category theory) • Anger • Appeasement • Athens • Availability • A World Restored • balance of trade • Battle of Loos • Charles P. Kindleberger • Classical realism (international relations) • Comparative Advantage • Competition (economics) • Criticism • Currency • Delian League • demagogue • Dependency Theory • Despair (novel) • Destined (Cast novel) • Digression • Disenchantment • Dissident • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Economic equilibrium • Economic Integration • Economic Policy • Economics • economy • Effectiveness • Emotion • Empire of Japan • Empirical Evidence • Employment • Energy industry • ethics • existential crisis • fanaticism • Financial regulation • Foreign Exchange Market • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • forging • Free Market • Führer • Geneva Conference (1954) • Genre • George Stigler • Global financial system • Globalization • Government Debt • Great Power • Great Recession • Gross Domestic Product • Hadji Murat (novel) • Hans Morgenthau • hegemony • Hjalmar Schacht • hoplite • Hubris • Human nature • humiliation • humility • Ideology • Industrial Revolution • Industry • International crisis • International Economics • International Relations • International Security • International Trade Organization • Interrogation • Jacob Viner • John Maynard Keynes • John Mearsheimer • Kenneth Waltz • Latin Monetary Union • Law of one Price • Lecture • liberal democracy • Liberalism • little fuzzy • livy • Long run and short run • Marginal cost • Market Economy • Market power • Marxism • Military • military doctrine • Military policy • Military tactics • Military threat • modern history • month • Mutilation • Nanking massacre • national power • national security • Navigation Acts • Neorealism (international relations) • Neville Chamberlain • newspaper • Nixon shock • novelist • Null set • offensive realism • On China • openness • Opium • Overreaction • Oxford University Press • Pacifism • Paul Samuelson • Peace and Conflict Studies • Person • Phase Out • Physician • Polarity (international relations) • Police Officer • policy debate • Political System • Politics • Politics Among Nations • Post–World War II economic expansion • power politics • Power transform • Prediction • printing • Product (business) • Productivity • protectionism • Rational Expectations • Rationality • Raymond Aron • Reclaiming (Neopaganism) • Refugee • Regional Hegemony • reign • Reinhold Niebuhr • Remilitarization of the Rhineland • Representative Democracy • resentment • result • Revolution • right-wing politics • Robert Gilpin • school of thought • Sedition • Seoul • Social Influence • Southern Europe • Sovereignty • Stanley Hoffmann • Stanley Kubrick • Subjectivity • Surveillance • tariff • Territorial integrity • The New York Review of Books • Theorem • Theory of International Politics • The Public Interest • The Realist • Thomas Hobbes • Thucydides • Total War • Trade Agreement • Triumphalism • Uncertainty • Unintended Consequences • United States Department of State • war • Wealth • Westview Press • willful blindness • Will to Power • World Bank • World Politics • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23312-8 / 0691233128
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23312-3 / 9780691233123