Realism Reconsidered

Michael C. Williams is Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His publications include The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations (2005) and Culture and Security: Symbolic Power and the Politics of International Security (2007). He is currently completing a book (with Rita Abrahamsen) entitled Security Beyond the State: Global-Local Private Security Networks in International Politics.

• Introduction ; 1. Morgenthau, Agency and Aristotle ; 2. 'The Twilight of International Morality'? Hans J. Morgenthau and Carl Schmitt on the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum ; 3. Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond ; 4. The Image of Law in Politics Among Nations ; 5. Realism, Tragedy and the Anti-Pelagian Imagination in International Political Thought. ; 6. The balance of power in Politics Among Nations ; 7. Hans Morgenthau and the Cold War ; 8. Hans Morgenthau and the World State Revisited ; 9. Morgenthau Now: Neoconservatism, National Greatness and Realism ; 10. Texts, Paradigms, and Political Change

Williams and his contributors make an exciting and innovative contribution to Morgenthau scholarship. The authors use interesting and lesser-known sources, and vivid examples, to show or speculate about Morgenthau's positions on a range of topics.