Francis A. Beer is Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. His works include Meanings of War and Peace and Post Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations. Robert Hariman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. Hariman has written numerous books and journal articles in several disciplines.

• Contents Acknowledgments I. Refiguring Realism Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations II. Rereading Realist Writers Henry Kissinger: Realism’s Rational Actor Realism Masking Fear: George F. Kennan’s Political Rhetoric Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism E. H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion Hans J. Morgenthau In Defense of the National Interest:On Rhetoric, Realism, and the Public Sphere III. Rewriting Realist Concepts Rethinking Sovereignty The Meaning of Security Metaphors of Prestige and Reputation in American Foreign Policy and American Realism Nationalism and Realist Discourses of International Relations The Gender of Rhetoric, Reason, and Realism A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology IV. Rewriting Foreign Policy Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High-Level U. S. Foreign Policy Making The Logic of Différance in International Relations: U. S. Colonization of the Philippines Indigenous Peoples, Marginal Sites, and the Changing Context of World Politics Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia V. Post-Realism Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities / Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman List of Contributors Index