Realpolitik : : a history / / John Bew.
"Realpolitik is approaching its 160th birthday, though it has existed as a form of statecraft for centuries and is arguably as old as the conduct of foreign affairs itself. Associated with great thinkers from Machiavelli to Kissinger, it is deeply rooted in the history of diplomacy yet also rem...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford ;, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (409 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- Part I: Real Realpolitik
- 1. The origins of Realpolitik
- 2. Foundations of Realpolitik
- 3. Realpolitik and Bismarck: a fatal compromise?
- 4. Realpolitik after Rochau
- Part II: Anti-realpolitik and the Anglo-American Worldview
- 5. The English Discovery of Realpolitik
- 6. American Realpolitik
- 7. The Coming Peace and the Eradication of Realpolitik
- Part III: Inter-war Realpolitik
- 8. The Ingestion of Realpolitik
- 9. Germany and the New Realpolitik
- 10. Machiavelli's Return? Realpolitik, Fascism and Appeasement
- Part IV: The Americanisation of Realpolitik
- 11. America's Awakening: Geopolitics and the Ethics of American Statecraft
- 12. Realpolitik through the Back Door? The Role of the Emigres
- 13. Bismarckism and Anti-Bismarckism
- Part V: Practical Realpolitik
- 14. Reluctant Realpolitik in the Cold War Era
- 15. Realpolitik in the Nixon-Carter Era
- 16. Wither Realpolitik? The End of the Cold War and Beyond
- Conclusion: Why we need a Renaissance of Realpolitik.