Realist Thought and the Nation-State Power Politics in the Age of Nationalism /

• Main Author: Kostagiannis, Konstantinos (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
• Subjects: Political theory.; International relations.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; International Relations Theory.; Political Philosophy.

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 rea...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Three Facets of Power and the Nation-State in the Realism of E. H. Carr
• 3. Hans Morgenthau's Realism: Power as the Nemesis of the Nation-State
• 4. John Herz and Realism's Moment of Transition
• 5. Nationalism and the Nation-State in Structural Realism: John Mearsheimer's Offensive Realism
• 6. Conclusion: Power Politics in the Age of Nationalism. .