Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction / Brian Schmidt -- 2. The myth of the 'first great debate' / Peter Wilson -- 3. Rereading early twentieth-century IR theory : idealism revisited / Andreas Osiander -- 4. Did the realist-idealist great debate really happen? A revisionist history of international relations / Lucian M. Ashworth -- 5. C.A.W. Manning and the first great debate / David Long -- 6. The American national interest great debate / Brian C. Schmidt -- 7. Myth, half-truth, reality or strategy? Managing disciplinary identity and the origins of the first great debate / Cameron G. Thies -- 8. Where are we now in the debate about the first great debate? / Peter Wilson.

This title provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of international relations.

This article provides a critical review of John Hobson's The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics. More specifically, it challenges Hobson's interpretation of realism and it questions the extent to which he accuses earlier thinkers of being racists.

"The History of International Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.

Realists are the theorists of power politics. Although realists base their analysis of international politics on the role of power, there is a good deal of variation in how individual realist scholars conceptualise the concept. The article makes use of the important insight that rather than being monolithic, there actually are a number of different and competing realist theories. It closely examines how classical, structural, and modified realists understand and employ `power' with the underlying aim to determine how each version of realism comprehends this elusive concept.