Manchester University Press
1 Realism
Abstract
Realist scholarship and peacekeeping scholarship are rarely brought together, and this is to the detriment of both fields, suggests this chapter. This chapter shows how IR realism would help to enrich and boost the study of peacekeeping, and, conversely, how the study of peacekeeping may provide fertile new ground for realist investigations of world politics. The chapter reiterates the fact that peacekeeping concerns some of the most fundamental questions of political science such as peace, war, and order, and that realism may help significantly to broaden the scope of peacekeeping studies to macro-political questions. The chapter discusses different varieties of realism, and suggests that, if there is to be a new distribution of power within the international system, then realism may offer particularly timely insights to study the future development of peacekeeping operations in a multipolar world.
Abstract
Realist scholarship and peacekeeping scholarship are rarely brought together, and this is to the detriment of both fields, suggests this chapter. This chapter shows how IR realism would help to enrich and boost the study of peacekeeping, and, conversely, how the study of peacekeeping may provide fertile new ground for realist investigations of world politics. The chapter reiterates the fact that peacekeeping concerns some of the most fundamental questions of political science such as peace, war, and order, and that realism may help significantly to broaden the scope of peacekeeping studies to macro-political questions. The chapter discusses different varieties of realism, and suggests that, if there is to be a new distribution of power within the international system, then realism may offer particularly timely insights to study the future development of peacekeeping operations in a multipolar world.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vi
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory: An introduction 1
- 1 Realism 31
- 2 Liberal institutionalism 48
- 3 Rational choice institutionalism 70
- 4 Sociological institutionalism 91
- 5 Constructivism 111
- 6 Practice theories 129
- 7 Critical security studies 149
- 8 Feminist institutionalism 175
- 9 Complexity theory 195
- Concluding reflections 217
- Index 227
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vi
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory: An introduction 1
- 1 Realism 31
- 2 Liberal institutionalism 48
- 3 Rational choice institutionalism 70
- 4 Sociological institutionalism 91
- 5 Constructivism 111
- 6 Practice theories 129
- 7 Critical security studies 149
- 8 Feminist institutionalism 175
- 9 Complexity theory 195
- Concluding reflections 217
- Index 227
