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The Oxford Handbook of International Relations Reus-Smit, Christian, Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University Snidal, Duncan, Associate Professor in the Harris School, Department of Political Science, and the College, University of Chicago Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921932-2 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
7 Realism doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199219322.003.0007 William C. Wohlforth Abstract: What is Realism? – Realism's Unity: The Signature Argument – Realism's Diversity: Theoretical Schools – Realism's Diversity: Theories – Myth-induced Misconceptions – Realism Today – Conclusion: The Advent of Modest Realism Keywords: international relations,	Related Content in OHO 'Moral Realism' in The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
William C. Wohlforth is Professor and Chair in the Department of Government, Dartmouth College.	William C. Wohlforth External web page

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I Introduction

1 Between Utopia and Reality: The Practical Discourses of International Relations*

II Imagining the Discipline

2 The State and International Relations

3 From International Relations to Global Society

4 The Point is Not Just to Explain the World but to Change It

5 A Disabling Discipline*?

III Major Theoretical Perspectives

6 Eclectic Theorizing in the Study and Practice of International Relations

8 The Ethics of Realism

10 The Ethics of Marxism*

11 Neoliberal Institutionalism

12 The Ethics of Neoliberal Institutionalism*

13 The New Liberalism*

14 The Ethics of the New Liberalism

15 The English School*

16 The Ethics of the English School

17 Constructivism*

18 The Ethics of Constructivism

19 Critical Theory

20 The Ethics of Critical Theory

21 Postmodernism

22 The Ethics of Postmodernism

24 The Ethics Of Feminism*

IV The Question of Method

25 Methodological Individualism and Rational Choice

26 Sociological Approaches

27 Psychological Approaches

28 Quantitative Approaches

29 Case Study Methods

30 Historical Methods

V Bridging The Subfield Boundaries

31 International Political Economy*

32 Strategic Studies

33 Foreign-Policy Decision-Making

34 International Ethics

35 International Law

VI The Scholar And The Policy-Maker

36 Scholarship and Policy-Making: Who Speaks Truth to Whom?

37 International Relations: The Relevance of Theory to Practice*

VII The Question of Diversity

38 International Relations from Below*

39 International Relations Theory from a Former Hegemon*

VIII Old And New

40 The Concept of Power and the (Un)discipline of International Relations

41 Locating Responsibility: The Problem of Moral Agency in International Relations*

42 Big Questions in the Study of World Politics

43 The Failure of Static and the Need for Dynamic Approaches to International Relations*

44 Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations

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