Contents
Acknowledgments
I. Refiguring Realism
Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations
II. Rereading Realist Writers
Henry Kissinger: Realism’s Rational Actor
Realism Masking Fear: George F. Kennan’s Political Rhetoric
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism
E. H. Carr: Ambivalent Realist
Martin Wight: International Relations as Realm of Persuasion
Hans J. Morgenthau In Defense of the National Interest:On Rhetoric, Realism, and the Public Sphere
III. Rewriting Realist Concepts
Rethinking Sovereignty
The Meaning of Security
Metaphors of Prestige and Reputation in American Foreign Policy and American Realism
Nationalism and Realist Discourses of International Relations
The Gender of Rhetoric, Reason, and Realism
A Reinterpretation of Realism: Genealogy, Semiology, Dromology
IV. Rewriting Foreign Policy
Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High-Level U. S. Foreign Policy Making
The Logic of Différance in International Relations: U. S. Colonization of the Philippines
Indigenous Peoples, Marginal Sites, and the Changing Context of World Politics
Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia
V. Post-Realism
Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities / Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman
List of Contributors
Index
