The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources

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The Evolution of International Security Studies

War and Change in World Politics

Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

The sources of military doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the world wars

Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics

1. Introduction: neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman 2. Threat assessment, the state, and foreign policy: a neoclassical realist model Steven E. Lobell 3. Neoclassical realism and strategic calculations: explaining divergent British, French, and Soviet strategies toward Germany between the world wars (1919-39) Mark R. Brawley 4. Neoclassical realism and identity: peril despite profit across the Taiwan Strait Jennifer Sterling-Folker 5. Neoclassical realism and the national interests: presidents, domestic politics, and major military interventions Colin Dueck 6. Neoclassical realism and domestic interest groups Norrin M. Ripsman 7. Neoclassical realism and resource extraction: state building for future war Jeffrey W. Taliaferro 8. Neoclassical realism and state mobilization: expansionist ideology in the age of mass politics Randall L. Schweller 9. The limits of neoclassical realism: additive and interactive approaches to explaining foreign policy preferences Benjamin O. Fordham 10. Conclusion: the state of neoclassical realism Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Steven E. Lobell.

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Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy

How do states, or more specifically the decision-makers and institutions that act on their behalf, assess international threats and opportunities? What happens when there is disagreement about the nature of foreign threats? Who ultimately decides the range of acceptable and unacceptable foreign policy alternatives? To what extent, and under what conditions, can domestic actors bargain with state leaders and influence foreign or security policies? How and under what circumstances will domestic factors impede states from pursuing the types of strategies predicted by balance of power theory and balance of threat theory? Finally, how do states go about extracting and mobilizing resources necessary to implement foreign and security policies? These are important questions that cannot be answered by the dominant neorealist or liberal theories of international politics. Consider the following: in 1945, and again in 1990, the United States emerged victorious from a major war or an enduring rivalry. In each postwar period, officials in Washington faced the daunting task of assessing and responding to new and unfamiliar international threats. However, the resulting shifts in grand strategy were not predictable solely based upon an analysis of relative power distributions or the dynamics of American domestic politics at the time. The bipolar distribution of power following the Second World War does not explain why the United States embarked upon a grand strategy of containment, which eventually mixed both realpolitik and liberal internationalist ends and means, over the alternative of competitive cooperation with the Soviet Union through a sphere-of-influence arrangement in Europe.

Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy: Introduction: Neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy

Second image reversed plus a second image -- Liberal contenders and Britain's grand strategy of cooperation, 1889-1912 -- Imperial contenders and Britain's grand strategy of restrained punishment, 1932-1939 -- Imperial contenders and Spain's grand strategy of punishment, 1621-1640 -- Great power tenure.

Steven E. Lobell

Papers

Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics

Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy

Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy: Introduction: Neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy

The Challenge of Hegemony: Grand Strategy, Trade, and Domestic Politics

Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation