The Atlantic realists : empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States

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    • Specter, Matthew G. (Matthew Goodrich)

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The Atlantic realists : empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States

Matthew Specter

Stanford University Press, 2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Historians of US foreign policy have noted the prominence of self-proclaimed "realists" among them: George Kennan, Kenneth Waltz, and Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But histories of what today we call realism in international relations theory have rarely sought to trace the origins of these schools of thought to the twentieth-century German political contexts that are primarily responsible for their emergence. Similarly, historians of German imperialism from the late nineteenth century through the Holocaust have often neglected the United States as a source of the ideas and practices of great power politics. This book offers a genealogy of realism in the work of lawyers, political scientists, international relations theorists, and diplomats from 1890 to 1960, exploring the transatlantic connections between the modern American and German empires. Reconstructing this transnational circulation of ideas between the US and Germany reveals the concordances between the American and German imperial experie

収録内容

  • Introduction : the Bildungsroman of empire
  • Seeing like a world power : the German-American synthesis
  • Realism before "realism" : geopolitics in the interwar Atlantic
  • Carl Schmitt's practice of imperial comparison in the 1930s and 40s
  • The making of a realist : Wilhelm Grewe in the Third Reich
  • Geopolitics : death and rebirth of an Atlantic tradition during World War II
  • An American power politics : Hans Morgenthau and the making of a realist orthodoxy, 1940-1960
  • Realism's crisis and restoration : West Germany, 1954-85

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