Nicolas Guilhot: 2 books
The Democracy Makers
Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various...
After the Enlightenment
Political Realism and International Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
After the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an eternal wisdom inherited from Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes, but a twentieth-century phenomenon rooted in the interwar years, the collapse of the Weimar Republic,...