Francis A. Beer

Francis A. Beer is Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. His most recent book is Meanings of War and Peace. Other works include Post Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations (with Robert H...

Robert Hariman

Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations

 Edited by

Francis A. Beer

Robert Hariman

Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post- War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.  
 
The Cold War cannot really end until its reigning paradigm of political realism is put to rest or radically reordered. The essays in this volume bristle with insights for scholars of politics, international relations, and communications. Practitioners of statecraft,too, realize the opportunity to learn from this rhetorical turn in international relations.  
 
John S. Nelson, Ph.D. 
Director of the University of Iowa Project  
on the Rhetoric of Inquiry  
 

Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series