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Book SynopsisA concise book on Realpolitik: its origins as an idea; its practical application to statecraft in the recent past; and its relevance to contemporary foreign policy.
Trade ReviewJohn Bew has done a great service in writing this concise, readable and informative history * Douglas Alexander, New Statesman *
A heavily researched, readable, and comprehensive review of political and diplomatic history ... A sweeping array of political actors and earthshaking events. * Wall Street Journal *
scholarly * Jonathan Powell, Prospect *
brilliant new study * Niccolo Machiavelli, Standpoint *
a well-researched account and a superb introduction to a concept that still has relevance to today's foreign policy questions. * Peter Whitewood, Times Higher Education *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part I: Real Realpolitik ; 1. The origins of Realpolitik ; 2. Foundations of Realpolitik ; 3. Realpolitik and Bismarck: a fatal compromise? ; 4. Realpolitik after Rochau ; Part II: Anti-realpolitik and the Anglo-American Worldview ; 5. The English Discovery of Realpolitik ; 6. American Realpolitik ; 7. The Coming Peace and the Eradication of Realpolitik ; Part III: Inter-war Realpolitik ; 8. The Ingestion of Realpolitik ; 9. Germany and the New Realpolitik ; 10. Machiavelli's Return? Realpolitik, Fascism and Appeasement ; Part IV: The Americanisation of Realpolitik ; 11. America's Awakening: Geopolitics and the Ethics of American Statecraft ; 12. Realpolitik through the Back Door? The Role of the Emigres ; 13. Bismarckism and Anti-Bismarckism ; Part V: Practical Realpolitik ; 14. Reluctant Realpolitik in the Cold War Era ; 15. Realpolitik in the Nixon-Carter Era ; 16. Wither Realpolitik? The End of the Cold War and Beyond ; Conclusion: Why we need a Renaissance of Realpolitik
