Realism

Alexander Reichwein is Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. Felix Rösch is Associate Professor in International Relations at Coventry University, UK.

“The reviewed anthology represents a contribution to the series Trends in European IR Theory. … There is still a lot of work to be done to get a better understanding of realist thinking in Europe. This important series is a major contribution to this effect.” (Christoph Rohde, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Vol. 14 (3), September, 2021)

• Chapter 1. Introduction: European 20th Century Realists – ‘Travellers between all worlds’.- Chapter 2. Between kratos and ethos: Thinking through the ritual in the work of Friedrich Meinecke.- Chapter 3. Edward H. Carr and Carl Schmitt: Interwar Realism's Not So Strange Bedfellows.- Chapter 4. Weimar in America: Central European Émigrés, Classical Realism, or How to Prevent History from Repeating Herself.- Chapter 5.  John Herz and the Purposes of Realism.- Chapter 6. Nicholas Spykman’s Interactional Realism: Irony, Social Theory, Political Geography.- Chapter 7. The Christian Realist Pendulum: Between Pacifism and Interventionism.- Chapter 8. The Germans and the Frenchmen: Hoffmann’s and Aron’s Critiques of Morgenthau.- Chapter 9. When Martians Go to Venus: Structural Realism in Europe.