LEADER 04626nam 22005295 450 001 9910986138003321 005 20250305120747.0 010 $a9783031832277$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031832260 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-83227-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31946503 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31946503 035 $a(CKB)37783630000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-83227-7 035 $a(OCoLC)1507698236 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937783630000041 100 $a20250305d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRealism in International Relations: The Making of a Disarrayed Tradition /$fby Mehmet Tabak 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,$x2946-2681 311 08$aPrint version: Tabak, Mehmet Realism in International Relations: the Making of a Disarrayed Tradition Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783031832260 327 $aChapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO A DISARRAYED TRADITION ? VIA A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSENSUS VIEW -- Chapter 2: E. H. CARR?S REALISM -- Chapter 3: HANS J. MORGENTHAU?S REALISM -- Chapter 4: KENNETH N. WALTZ?S REALISM -- Chapter 5: NEOREALISM ? AS WALTZ?S THEORY ? AND ITS CRITICS -- Chapter 6: DEBATES ON INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: A TALE OF TWO REALISMS -- Chapter 7: JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER?S OFFENSIVE REALISM -- Chapter 8: VARIETIES OF DEFENSIVE REALISM -- Chapter 9: VARIETIES OF NEOCLASSICAL REALISM -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX. 330 $aAccording to a pervasive view in the discipline of International Relations (IR): a) realism is a historical tradition, stretching all the way back to Thucydides; b) despite the important theoretical differences among themselves, realists uphold the same set of core beliefs about the workings of international politics. Together, these two claims amount to the perspective that realism is a sui generis scholarly tradition with ancient origins. The author critiques both aspects of this view by illustrating that realism is both a relatively recent tradition and a disarrayed one. He shows that the realist tradition entails conscious membership and participation in a common ?realist? discourse that has produced fundamentally different, even opposing, methodologies and theories about the same or related phenomena in international politics. In illustrating this argument, the author critically explores a variety of seminal statements of, and debates about, realism. This exploration reveals that the conceptual and theoretical shortcomings of the major statements of realism significantly explain why realism evolved as a disarrayed tradition. Overall, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of realism in particular and IR in general. The comprehensive and critical analysis of many facets of realism this book offers also yields many didactic elements. Mehmet Tabak is Clinical Assistant Professor, Program in International Relations at New York University. In this thoroughly-researched and original book, Tabak convincingly challenges the consensus that realism is a historical tradition, which consists of an essentially unified family of theories. Realism in International Relations is a must read for any scholar of international relations. Shinasi Rama, Clinical Professor, Program in International Relations, New York University,USA. Realism in International Relations is the most comprehensive critique of realist theory to date. It is also an invaluable historical study of realism?s evolution as an intellectual tradition. Future debates in the field cannot ignore this book. Arman Grigoryan, Associate Professor, International Relations Department, Lehigh University,USA. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,$x2946-2681 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aInternational Relations Theory 606 $aInternational Security Studies 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 14$aInternational Relations Theory. 615 24$aInternational Security Studies. 676 $a327.101 700 $aTabak$b Mehmet$0926611 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910986138003321 996 $aRealism in International Relations: The Making of a Disarrayed Tradition$94350072 997 $aUNINA