Realism in International Relations - Further Reading

Further Reading

• Ashley, Richard K. "Political Realism and the Human Interests," International Studies Quarterly (1981) 25: 204-36.
• Barkin, J. Samuel Realist Constructivism: Rethinking International Relations Theory (Cambridge University Press; 2010) 202 pages. Examines areas of both tension and overlap between the two approaches to IR theory.
• Bell, Duncan, ed. Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Booth, Ken. 1991. "Security in anarchy: Utopian realism in theory and practice", International Affairs 67(3), pp. 527–545
• Crawford; Robert M. A. Idealism and Realism in International Relations: Beyond the Discipline (2000) online edition
• Donnelly; Jack. Realism and International Relations (2000) online edition
• Gilpin, Robert G. "The richness of the tradition of political realism," International Organization (1984), 38:287-304
• Griffiths; Martin. Realism, Idealism, and International Politics: A Reinterpretation (1992) online edition
• Guilhot Nicolas, ed. The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory (2011)
• Keohane, Robert O., ed. Neorealism and its Critics (1986)
• Lebow, Richard Ned. The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Mearsheimer, John J., "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics." New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
• Meyer, Donald. The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941 (1988) online edition
• Molloy, Sean. The Hidden History of Realism: A Genealogy of Power Politics. New York: Palgrave, 2006.
• Morgenthau, Hans. "Scientific Man versus Power Politics" (1946) Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • "Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace" (1948) New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • "In Defense of the National Interest" (1951) New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • "The Purpose of American Politics" (1960) New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Murray, A. J. H., Reconstructing Realism: Between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997.
• Osborn, Ronald, "Noam Chomsky and the Realist Tradition," Review of International Studies, Vol.35, No.2, 2009.
• Rosenthal, Joel H. Righteous Realists: Political Realism, Responsible Power, and American Culture in the Nuclear Age. (1991). 191 pp. Compares Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans J. Morgenthau, Walter Lippmann, George F. Kennan, and Dean Acheson
• Scheuerman, William E. 2010. "The (classical) Realist vision of global reform." International Theory 2(2): pp. 246–282.
• Schuett, Robert. Political Realism, Freud, and Human Nature in International Relations. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
• Smith, Michael Joseph. Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (1986)
• Tjalve, Vibeke S. Realist Strategies of Republican Peace: Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and the Politics of Patriotic Dissent. New York: Palgrave, 2008.
• Williams, Michael C. The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.