Reconstructing Realpolitik

Reconstructing Realpolitik assesses what there is of value in the realpolitik approach to understanding world politics, what must be amended ordiscarded, and what might be needed to replace the classic model. Calling realpolitik, or realism, a “cluster of models, assumptions, hunches, hypotheses, and parameter estimates” united only by their common focus on power, the editors challenged their cont...