The Realist Case for Global Reform

Preface vi

Acknowledgments x

Introduction: Meet the Progressive Realists 1

1 Why (Almost) Everything You Learned About Realism is Wrong 15

2 Realists Against the Nation State 39

3 Realist Global Reformism 67

4 What Cosmopolitans Can Learn from Progressive Realism 98

5 What Other Global Reformers Can Learn from Progressive Realism 126

6 Who’s Afraid of the World State? 149

Conclusion: A Niebuhrian President? 169

Notes 174

References 191

Index 209