The Realist Case for Global ReformISBN: 978-0-7456-5030-2
Paperback
200 pages
April 2011, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Global Policy
"This fusing of radical and Realist ideas remains the most intriguing development in international theory of the past decade."
International Affairs
"Very persuasive ... undoubtedly a rewarding read."
Political Studies Review
"This book offers fresh insight into a school of thought largely seen as unyielding, and offers renewed hope to the concepts of global reform and postnational governance."
Australian Journal of International Relations
"A challenging account of how realism can influence existing international relations, which have undergone a major transformation in recent decades."
Choice
"A really provocative read - very much a book in the best Polity
tradition. This is an intellectual winner, and deserves to have an
impact."
Michael Cox, London School of Economics
"The Realist logic of world government has been substantially
enhanced by William Scheuerman in this thorough and well-written
analysis. No one can now deny that the intellectual founders of
contemporary Realism were far more willing to look beyond the
interstate system than their Neorealist successors."
Campbell Craig, Aberystwyth University
"Scheuerman's brilliant presentation of classic Realists as
proponents of a Progressive Realism radically transforms the way in
which we can and should understand the Realist tradition, and links
Progressive Realism to advocacy of a form of world government that
is a welcome alternative to an anemic ‘governance without
government'."
Peter Stirk, Durham University