3 Carl Schmitt’s Practice of Imperial Comparison in the 1930s and 1940s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Bildungsroman of Empire 1
5. 1 Seeing like a World Power: The German-American Synthesis 18
6. 2 Realism before “Realism” Geopolitics in the Interwar Atlantic 50
7. 3 Carl Schmitt’s Practice of Imperial Comparison in the 1930s and 1940s 68
8. 4 The Making of a Realist Wilhelm Grewe in the Third Reich 91
9. 5 Geopolitics Death and Rebirth of an Atlantic Tradition during World War II 118
10. 6 An American Power Politics Hans Morgenthau and the Making of a Realist Orthodoxy, 1940–1960 137
11. 7 Realism’s Crisis and Restoration West Germany, 1954–1985 168
12. Conclusion 202
13. Acknowledgments 215
14. Notes 221
15. Bibliography 279
16. Index 307