Realist thought and the nation-state : power politics in the age of nationalism / Konstantinos Kostagiannis.
2018
JC311
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Title
Realist thought and the nation-state : power politics in the age of nationalism / Konstantinos Kostagiannis.
Author
Kostagiannis, Konstantinos.
ISBN
9783319596297 (electronic book)
3319596292 (electronic book)
9783319596280
3319596284
3319596292 (electronic book)
9783319596280
3319596284
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
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JC311
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.54
Summary
This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state. Presented in a sequence of snapshots and illustrated by examples drawn from the foreign policy of great powers, this history is represented by four key realist thinkers. It uses the centrality of power in realism as a starting point to claim, contrary to conventional wisdom about realism, that for realists the state is better understood not as a political unit outside history but rather as a manifestation of power unfixed in time. It also claims that the process of gradual impoverishment of the concept of power from classical to structural realism had profound implications for realism, as what the latter gained in parsimony it lost in analytical purchase. As a result, elaborate understandings of nationalism and its relation to the state are replaced by one-dimensional approaches. In order to offer meaningful engagement with foreign policy, neorealists often have to resort to the recovery of some of the complexity of classical realist accounts.
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Palgrave Macmillan series on the history of international thought.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Three Facets of Power and the Nation-State in the Realism of E. H. Carr
3. Hans Morgenthau's Realism: Power as the Nemesis of the Nation-State
4. John Herz and Realism's Moment of Transition
5. Nationalism and the Nation-State in Structural Realism: John Mearsheimer's Offensive Realism
6. Conclusion: Power Politics in the Age of Nationalism.
2. The Three Facets of Power and the Nation-State in the Realism of E. H. Carr
3. Hans Morgenthau's Realism: Power as the Nemesis of the Nation-State
4. John Herz and Realism's Moment of Transition
5. Nationalism and the Nation-State in Structural Realism: John Mearsheimer's Offensive Realism
6. Conclusion: Power Politics in the Age of Nationalism.