Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Bildungsroman of empire
  • Seeing like a world power : the German-American synthesis
  • Realism before "realism" : geopolitics in the interwar Atlantic
  • Carl Schmitt's practice of imperial comparison in the 1930s and 40s
  • The making of a realist : Wilhelm Grewe in the Third Reich
  • Geopolitics : death and rebirth of an Atlantic tradition during World War II
  • An American power politics : Hans Morgenthau and the making of a realist orthodoxy, 1940-1960
  • Realism's crisis and restoration : West Germany, 1954-85.