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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis work is a classic and will surely be required reading for doctoral qualifying exams and graduate-level international relations theory courses... Essential. Choice ...an intriguing book about an important, if slightly baffling, episode in the intellectual history of International Relations... -- Ian Hall International Affairs ...a text that will be indispensable for the training of graduate students in IR and in diplomatic history broadly defined. -- Volker Berghahn H-Diplo Roundtable
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: One Discipline, Many Histories, by Nicolas Guilhot 1. Morality, Policy, and Theory: Reflections on the 1954 Conference, by Robert Jervis 2. Tensions Within Realism: 1954 and After, by Jack Snyder 3. The Rockefeller Foundation Conference and the Long Road to a Theory of International Politics, by Brian C. Schmidt 4. The Speech Act of Realism: The Move That Made IR, by Ole Waever 5. The Realist Gambit: Postwar American Political Science and the Birth of IR Theory, by Nicolas Guilhot 6. Kennan: Realism as Desire, by Anders Stephanson 7. American Hegemony, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of Academic International Relations in the United States, by Inderjeet Parmar 8. Realism and Neoliberalism: From Reactionary Modernism to Postwar Conservatism, by Philip Mirowski Appendix 1. Conference on International Politics, May 7-8, 1954 Appendix 2. The Theoretical and Practical Importance of a Theory of International Relations, by Hans J. Morgenthau Appendix 3. The Moral Issue in International Relations, by Reinhold Niebuhr Appendix 4. International Relations Theory and Areas of Choice in Foreign Policy, by William T. R. Fox Appendix 5. The Implications of Theory for Practice in the Conduct of Foreign Affairs, by Paul Nitze Appendix 6. Theory of International Politics: Its Merits and Advancement, by Arnold Wolfers List of Contributors Index
