TY - BOOK ID - 32735752 TI - The realist tradition and the limits of international relations PY - 2005 VL - 100 SN - 0521827523 0521534755 9780521534758 9780521827522 9780511491771 0511081103 9780511081101 0511080344 9780511080340 0511491778 1107138299 9781107138292 9786610421602 6610421609 9780511081103 9780521827523 1280421606 9781280421600 0511171080 9780511171086 0511196717 9780511196713 0511326653 9780511326653 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - International relations KW - Realism. KW - Relations internationales KW - Réalisme KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Realism KW - Philosophy KW - #SBIB:327.1H10 KW - Empiricism KW - Universals (Philosophy) KW - Conceptualism KW - Dualism KW - Idealism KW - Materialism KW - Nominalism KW - Positivism KW - Rationalism KW - Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - International relations - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32735752 AB - Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance for contemporary international relations. Examining three thinkers commonly invoked as Realism's foremost proponents - Hobbes, Rousseau, and Morgenthau - the book shows that, far from advocating a crude realpolitik, Realism's most famous classical proponents actually stressed the need for a restrained exercise of power and a politics with ethics at its core. These ideas are more relevant than ever at a time when the nature of responsible responses to international problems are at the centre of contemporary political debate. This original interpretation of major thinkers will interest scholars of international relations and the history of ideas. ER -