Post-Realism
The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations
Published on 31. August 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
439 pages
978-0-87013-461-6 (ISBN)
Description
The end of the Cold War encourages new perspectives on international relations. Beer and Hariman provide a comprehensive set of essays that challenge and reinterpret the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and foreign policy makers. Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations systematically discusses the major realist writers of the Post-War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of foreign policy discourse.
These essays demonstrate how realism operates rhetorically and point the way toward a richer understanding of world politics.
These essays demonstrate how realism operates rhetorically and point the way toward a richer understanding of world politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
671 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-461-6 (9780870134616)
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Persons
Francis A. Beer is Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. His works include Meanings of War and Peace and Post Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations. Robert Hariman is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. Hariman has written numerous books and journal articles in several disciplines.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
I. Refiguring Realism
Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations
II. Rereading Realist Writers
Henry Kissinger: Realism's Rational Actor
Realism Masking Fear: George F. Kennan's Political Rhetoric
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism
E. H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist
Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion
Hans J. Morgenthau In Defense of the National Interest:On Rhetoric, Realism, and the Public Sphere
III. Rewriting Realist Concepts
Rethinking Sovereignty
The Meaning of Security
Metaphors of Prestige and Reputation in American Foreign Policy and American Realism
Nationalism and Realist Discourses of International Relations
The Gender of Rhetoric, Reason, and Realism
A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology
IV. Rewriting Foreign Policy
Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High-Level U. S. Foreign Policy Making
The Logic of Differance in International Relations: U. S. Colonization of the Philippines
Indigenous Peoples, Marginal Sites, and the Changing Context of World Politics
Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia
V. Post-Realism
Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities / Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
I. Refiguring Realism
Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations
II. Rereading Realist Writers
Henry Kissinger: Realism's Rational Actor
Realism Masking Fear: George F. Kennan's Political Rhetoric
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism
E. H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist
Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion
Hans J. Morgenthau In Defense of the National Interest:On Rhetoric, Realism, and the Public Sphere
III. Rewriting Realist Concepts
Rethinking Sovereignty
The Meaning of Security
Metaphors of Prestige and Reputation in American Foreign Policy and American Realism
Nationalism and Realist Discourses of International Relations
The Gender of Rhetoric, Reason, and Realism
A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology
IV. Rewriting Foreign Policy
Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High-Level U. S. Foreign Policy Making
The Logic of Differance in International Relations: U. S. Colonization of the Philippines
Indigenous Peoples, Marginal Sites, and the Changing Context of World Politics
Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia
V. Post-Realism
Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities / Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman
List of Contributors
Index