Post-realism

Post-realism is a theoretical perspective on international relations. According to post-realism, global actors are joined in a global network of thoughts, actions, and talk. Post-realism focuses particularly on the talk, on discourse and debate in the conduct and study of international relations. For post-realists, international realism is a form of social scientific and political rhetoric. It opens rather than closes a debate about what is real and what is realistic in international relations.

References

• Francis A. Beer., and Robert Hariman, eds. Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996.
• Campbell, David. Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. revised ed. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1998.
• Chilton, Paul A. Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse From Containment to Common House. New York: Peter Land, 1996.
• Der Derian, James and Michael J. Shapiro, eds. International/Intertextual Relations. Lexington MA: Lexington Books, 1989.
• Dolan, Frederick M. and Thomas L. Dumm, eds. Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics. Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
• Donnelly, Jack. Realism and International Relations. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Ivie, Robert L. Democracy and America’s War on Terror. Tuscaloosa AL: University of Alabama Press. 2006.
• Little,Richard. The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths, and Models. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Medhurst, Martin J. and H. W. Brands, eds. Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
• Spurr, David. The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration. Duke University Press. 1993.
• White, James Boyd. When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press,

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