Stefano Guzzini's study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the rules of European diplomacy into the laws of a US social science.
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy concentrates on the evolution of a leading school of thought, its critiques and its institutional environment. As such it will provide an invaluable...

A comparative study of the relationship between the end of the Cold War and the resurgence of geopolitics in Europe.

Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, the book collects Stefano Guzzini's research on power, realism and constructivism. It explores the diversity of different schools and their intrinsic tensions and fallacies by analysing both theories and their assumptions, and theorists following their intellectual paths. Guzzini's approach to the analysis of power - within and outside International Relations - provides the common theme of the book through which the theoretical state of the art in International Relations is re-assessed. This book will be of interest to students and...

Samotný autor John Francis Nejez Bradley je původem Čech. Z Československa utekl v roce 1949 z věznice v Jáchymově. Ještě před útěkem se zajímal o klíčové mezníky českých dějin jeho současnosti, tedy o Mnichovskou dohodu a o Únor 1948. V zahraničí se pak vždy pouštěl do studia zlomových okamžiků, událostí roku 1968 a pak 1989. Vždy se snažil o pohled v mezinárodním kontextu. Vždy je objektem manévrování velmocí či supervelmocí. Nejez ve své monografii věnuje pozornost nacistickému Německu. Rozebírá danou problematiku fundovaně a do hloubky, a...