Political realism, Freud, and human nature in international relations

the resurrection of the realist man

Robert Schuett

Palgrave Macmillan

2010

Abstract

This book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory. Developing a Freudian philosophical anthropology for political realism, he argues for the careful resurrection of the concept of human nature in the wider study of international relations.

Cited authors

Freud Sigmund