Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history''s greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy''s vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England''s bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn o...