EAN: 9783319596280

REALIST THOUGHT AND THE NATION-STATE - KONSTANT...

This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state.
Presented in a sequence of snapshots and illustrated by examples drawn from the foreign policy
of great powers  this history is represented by four key realist thinkers. It uses the
centrality of power in realism as a starting point to claim  contrary to conventional wisdom
about realism  that for realists the state is better understood not as a political unit outside
history but rather as a manifestation of power unfixed in time. It also claims that the process
of gradual impoverishment of the concept of power from classical to structural realism had
profound implications for realism  as what the latter gained in parsimony it lost in analytical
purchase. As a result  elaborate understandings of nationalism and its relation to the state
are replaced by one-dimensional approaches. In order to offer meaningful engagement with
foreign policy  neorealists often have to resort to the recovery of some of the complexity of
classical realist accounts.

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