Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics and sociology of literature. His recent publications include, Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses, Foundation Books (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang), Bengali Fiction (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: Situating the Realist Paradigm of International Relations Amidst Its Great Debates 2 Early Classical Realism and Its Treatment of Power and Community: Thucydides, Kautilya, Master Han Fei Tzu, Machiavelli, and Hobbes 3 Geopolitics: Beyond Mahan, Mackinder, Haushofer, Spykman, and the Sprouts toward the Environmental and New/Critical/Postmodern Turns 4 Neoclassical Realism or Power Politics and Its Nuances: Niebuhr, Carr and Morgenthau 5 Neorealism: Kenneth Waltz, His Images and Levels of Analysis 6 Strategic Realism and Offensive Realism: Schelling and Mearsheimer 7 Realism’s Internal and External Critiques 8 Systems Theory: Kaplan, Modelski, Rosecrance, McClelland, Holsti and Singer 9 Game Theory or the Theory of Interdependent Decisions in IR. Index.

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics and sociology of literature. His recent publications include, Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses, Foundation Books (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang), Bengali Fiction (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: Situating the Realist Paradigm of International Relations Amidst Its Great Debates 2 Early Classical Realism and Its Treatment of Power and Community: Thucydides, Kautilya, Master Han Fei Tzu, Machiavelli, and Hobbes 3 Geopolitics: Beyond Mahan, Mackinder, Haushofer, Spykman, and the Sprouts toward the Environmental and New/Critical/Postmodern Turns 4 Neoclassical Realism or Power Politics and Its Nuances: Niebuhr, Carr and Morgenthau 5 Neorealism: Kenneth Waltz, His Images and Levels of Analysis 6 Strategic Realism and Offensive Realism: Schelling and Mearsheimer 7 Realism’s Internal and External Critiques 8 Systems Theory: Kaplan, Modelski, Rosecrance, McClelland, Holsti and Singer 9 Game Theory or the Theory of Interdependent Decisions in IR. Index.

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics and sociology of literature. His recent publications include, Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses, Foundation Books (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Ed.) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013) and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang), Bengali Fiction (2023).

• Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction: Situating the Realist Paradigm of International Relations Amidst Its Great Debates 2 Early Classical Realism and Its Treatment of Power and Community: Thucydides, Kautilya, Master Han Fei Tzu, Machiavelli, and Hobbes 3 Geopolitics: Beyond Mahan, Mackinder, Haushofer, Spykman, and the Sprouts toward the Environmental and New/Critical/Postmodern Turns 4 Neoclassical Realism or Power Politics and Its Nuances: Niebuhr, Carr and Morgenthau 5 Neorealism: Kenneth Waltz, His Images and Levels of Analysis 6 Strategic Realism and Offensive Realism: Schelling and Mearsheimer 7 Realism’s Internal and External Critiques 8 Systems Theory: Kaplan, Modelski, Rosecrance, McClelland, Holsti and Singer 9 Game Theory or the Theory of Interdependent Decisions in IR. Index.