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Reconstructing Realpolitik assesses what there is of value in the realpolitik approach to understanding world politics, what must be amended ordiscarded, and what might be needed to replace the classic model. Calling realpolitik, or realism, a "cluster of models, assumptions, hunches, hypotheses, and parameter estimates" united only by their common focus on power, the editors challenged their contributors to test elements of the realpolitik model with empirical evidence and to suggest how the model might be revised to make it square with the evidence. The result is a wealth of original, rigorously tested, data-based findings that advance our understanding of this basic paradigm.The coverage is unusually comprehensive: chapters address the onset, escalation, and expansion phases of conflict; different conflict phenomena, such as economic sanctions, interventions, crisis bargaining, and decolonization, besides the more traditional concerns of military disputes, are examined; and the cases represent a variety of different spatial and temporal domains. In the end, Reconstructing Realpolitik shows that realpolitik factors and insights help to explain and predict a variety of international conflict phenomena while at the same time offen producing incorrect or exaggerated results. While realism remains a valuable proposition, it is clear that it fails to encompass several key factors that influence state behavior.Contributors include Robert A. Baumann, Bruce Bueno de Mesaquita, Gary Goertz, Athanasios Hristoulas, Paul Huth, Patrick James, Daniel M. Jones, Charles W. Kegley, Jr., David Lalman, Russell J. Leng, Frederic S. Pearson, Jeffrey J. Pickering, Brian M. Pollins, and Gregory A. Raymond.

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In a logically structured, clearly written, and largely jargon-free analysis, Wayman, Diehl, and contributors conduct a scientific, empirically based critique of realism. Despite realism's dominance in both theory and practice, they hold it to be "fundamentally flawed." They say as a theoretical construct, realism misses structures and processes that belie its premise that the international system is anarchic. It misses the impact on decision-makers' behavior of long-term alliances and of the internal dynamics of bargaining and negotiation processes. Moreover, it misses the dynamics of global changes in economics, politics, and culture. However, the evidence from the nine empirical case studies presented does recognize both the utility and the limitations of the realist framework. The authors challenge professional colleagues to be more precise in their writing and to engage in more empirical analysis of international events so that international relations as a field may move forward in accumulating knowledge and information. Highly recommended to all academic libraries with significant holdings in international affairs. J. A. Rhodes; Luther College

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Frank W. Wayman is Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan at Dearborn. Paul F. Diehl is Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.