Bew, John.

Realpolitik : A History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (409 pages)

Cover -- Realpolitik -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Return of Realpolitik -- I REAL REALPOLITIK -- 1. Origins -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Liberalism and Bismarck: A Fatal Compromise? -- 4. Realpolitik after Rochau -- II ANTI-REALPOLITIK ANDTHE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLDVIEW -- 5. The English Discovery of Realpolitik -- 6. American Realpolitik -- 7. The Coming Peace and the Eradication of Realpolitik -- III INTERWAR REALPOLITIK -- 8. The Ingestion of Realpolitik -- 9. Postwar Germany and the Realpolitik Revival -- 10. Realpolitik, Fascism, and Appeasement -- IV REALPOLITIK AND THE TANGLEDROOTS OF AMERICAN REALISM -- 11. Geopolitics and the Ethics of American Statecraft -- 12. German Émigrés and American Realism -- 13. The Bismarck Debate -- V PRACTICAL REALPOLITIK -- 14. Realpolitik before Détente -- 15. The Kissinger Effect -- 16. From Cold War to New World Order -- Conclusion: A Return to Foundations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A concise book on Realpolitik: its origins as an idea; its practical application to statecraft in the recent past; and its relevance to contemporary foreign policy.

9780199331949


Realism--Political aspects.
International relations--Philosophy.
World politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. bisacsh.


Electronic books.

JZ1307.B48 2015

327.101