Description:
This book provides an authoritative account of the controversy about the first great debate in the field of International Relations. Of all the self-images of International Relations, none is as pervasive and enduring as the notion that a great debate pitting idealists against realists took place in the 1940s.
Review Quotes:
"The book remains one of the best recent efforts to demerit the quasi mythological mainstream narrative of the disciplinary origins of IR. This piece of work should be of great value to higher education students and academics interested in enhancing their knowledge about the history of the discipline of IR." - Ricardo Villanueva (University of Glasgow) The Kelvingrove Review