Title The Atlantic realists : empire and international political thought between Germany and the United States / Matthew Specter

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) Contents Introduction : the Bildungsroman of empire -- Seeing like a world power : the German-American synthesis -- Realism before "realism" : geopolitics in the interwar Atlantic -- Carl Schmitt's practice of imperial comparison in the 1930s and 40s -- The making of a realist : Wilhelm Grewe in the Third Reich -- Geopolitics : death and rebirth of an Atlantic tradition during World War II -- An American power politics : Hans Morgenthau and the making of a realist orthodoxy, 1940-1960 -- Realism's crisis and restoration : West Germany, 1954-85 Summary "Historians of US foreign policy have noted the prominence of self-proclaimed "realists" among them: George Kennan, Kenneth Waltz, and Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But histories of what today we call realism in international relations theory have rarely sought to trace the origins of these schools of thought to the twentieth-century German political contexts that are primarily responsible for their emergence. Similarly, historians of German imperialism from the late nineteenth century through the Holocaust have often neglected the United States as a source of the ideas and practices of great power politics. This book offers a genealogy of realism in the work of lawyers, political scientists, international relations theorists, and diplomats from 1890 to 1960, exploring the transatlantic connections between the modern American and German empires. Reconstructing this transnational circulation of ideas between the US and Germany reveals the concordances between the American and German imperial experiences and their intellectual imaginaries. Matthew Specter discusses key figures in the evolution of the realist tradition, including the Nazi German jurist Carl Schmitt, American Hans Morgenthau, the émigré founder of international relations theory in the 1940s, and German diplomat Wilhelm Grewe. Specter challenges us to excavate the realist tradition for the racial and spatial dimensions of an Atlantic history that encompasses the Monroe Doctrine and the Spanish-American War, the Treaty of Versailles and the Holocaust, the division of Germany and the creation of global American empire"-- Provided by publisher Analysis American exceptionalism North Atlantic Realpolitik US foreign policy great powers international relations power politics restraint world politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Political realism -- History -- 20th century Balance of power -- History -- 20th century Imperialism -- History -- 20th century International relations -- Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Balance of power Diplomatic relations Imperialism International relations -- Philosophy Political realism SUBJECT Germany -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054517 United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089 Subject Germany United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781503629974 150362997X

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